S.Amdt. 3348

SA 3348. Mr. MANCHIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 524, to authorize the Attorney General to award
grants to address the national epidemics of prescription opioid abuse
and heroin use; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. ___. PRACTITIONER EDUCATION.

Section 303 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C.
823) is amended by adding at the end the following:
``(j)(1) The Attorney General shall not register, or renew
the registration of, a practitioner under subsection (f),
unless the practitioner submits to the Attorney General, for
each such registration or renewal request, a written
certification that the practitioner has completed a training
program described in paragraph (2).
``(2) A training program described in this paragraph is a
training program that--
``(A) includes information on--
``(i) safe opioid prescribing guidelines;
``(ii) the risks of over-prescribing opioid medications;
``(iii) pain management;
``(iv) early detection of opioid addiction; and
``(v) the treatment of opioid-dependent patients; and
``(B) is approved by the Secretary of Health and Human
Services.''.
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