S.Amdt. 3442

SA 3442. Mr. CASSIDY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3378 proposed by Mr. Grassley (for himself, Mr. Leahy,
Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Portman, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Ayotte, Mr. Graham, Mr.
Coons, Mr. Cornyn, and Mr. Durbin) 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. __. PRESCRIBER EDUCATION.

Section 301 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C.
821) is amended--
(1) by striking ``The Attorney General'' and inserting
``(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), the Attorney
General''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
``(b) A fee charged by the Attorney General under
subsection (a) relating to dispensing narcotic drugs in
schedule III, IV, or V or combinations of such drugs in
accordance with section 303(g)(2) shall be reduced by 50
percent if the practitioner has completed not less than 24
hours of training during the 3-year period ending on the date
that is 30 days earlier that the date on which an application
for registration under section 303(g)(2) is submitted
(through classroom situations, seminar at professional
society meetings, electronic communications, or otherwise)
with respect to the treatment and management of substance use
disorders, including opiate-dependent patients, provided by
the American Society of Addiction Medicine, the American
Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, the American Medical
Association, the American Osteopathic Association, the
American Psychiatric Association, or any other organization
that the Attorney General determines is appropriate for
purposes of this subsection after providing notice and a
period for public comment.''.
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