Search Results for keywords:"opioid alternatives"

Search Results: keywords:"opioid alternatives"

S. 3462 — To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue draft guidance to address non-addictive analgesics for chronic pain.
December 11, 2023
Status:Introduced in Senate
Congress:118
Words:231
S. 3462 directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to create draft guidance focusing on non-addictive pain relief options for chronic pain. This guidance, due within one year of the bill's enactment, will be created under a specific section of the SUPPORT for Patients...
Simple Explanation
The bill wants a government helper to write easy-to-understand rules for finding new pain medicine that doesn't make people addicted, like some pain medicines do now. They have to finish this task in about a year.
H. R. 10396 — To amend title 38, United States Code, to ensure that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs furnishes certain non-opioid pain medications to veterans, and for other purposes.
December 12, 2024
Status:Introduced in House
Congress:118
Words:523
The bill H. R. 10396, called the "NOPAIN for Veterans Act," proposes changes to the United States Code to ensure that veterans have access to non-opioid pain medications. It requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to quickly include eligible non-opioid pain medications in...
Simple Explanation
The bill H. R. 10396, or the "NOPAIN for Veterans Act," wants to make sure that veterans can get medicines that help with pain without using things that work like opioids. It makes the Veterans Affairs boss quickly add these non-opioid medicines to their list so veterans can use them.

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