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![[CREDIT: CSPAN] Sen. Jack Reed questioned federal law enforcement officials about the impact of Speaker McCarthy's proposed $4.5T budget cuts on the opioid epidemic and public safety.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Sen.-Reed-Debt-Ceiling-Budget-Cuts-Opioid-Epidemic-Impact-140x140.png?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WASHINGTON, DC — As Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA, Dist. 23) uses conservative lawmakers’ refusal to raise the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling to negotiate $4.5 trillion in GOP budget cuts, Sen. Jack […]
![[CREDIT: CODAC] U.S. Senators Reed and Whitehouse have announced $1.5M for expanding CODAC's Providence HQ and train and equip first responders in administering NARCAN.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/CODAC-Cranston-RI-1-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
PROVIDENCE, RI — U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse announced $1.5 million in federal funds to expand CODAC headquarters and train and equip the state’s first responders to administer […]
JOHNSTON, RI — As the opioid epidemic logs a spike in statewide overdose deaths, Warwick Post spoke with the staff and a client of the Ocean State Recovery Center about […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced $28.5 million in Opioid settlements with drug manufacturers Teva and Allergan that will deliver $28.5 million in cash as well as […]
March 3, 2022 – UPDATE: RI Attorney General Peter F. Neronha has announced a $5.5 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family for their role in the opioid […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and Governor Daniel J. McKee, have announced Rhode Island will join the national opioid settlement with three major opioid distributors to provide […]
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s opioid death rate ranked 11th instead of 9th in 2017 thanks to the medical community and the Governor’s Opioid Addiction Working Group, who’ll get $17 million […]
WARWICK, RI — Lt. Governor Dan McKee joined Warwick Mayor Scott Avedisian and the mayors of five other Rhode Island communities during a Monday press conference to announce a pending lawsuit against […]
WARWICK, RI — Police and health officials told 75 people at WPD headquarters Wednesday night that opioid addiction is persistently seductive, can’t be arrested out of existence or kicked quickly, […]
Editor’s note: The following information was provided by the the Legislative Press and Public Information Bureau. STATE HOUSE — The House of Representatives has passed legislation introduced byRep. Joseph M. McNamara […]
Rep. Joseph M. McNamara (D-Dist. 19, Warwick, Cranston) has announced that he will pre-file legislation that would ban the online sales of a new synthetic opioid that has been blamed for a number of overdose deaths across the country.
On Friday President Barack Obama signed into law legislation authored by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to give those on the front lines of the ongoing opioid abuse epidemic in America better tools to combat it.
