Requires the Department of Defense, in collaboration with other agencies and stakeholders, to create a plan to accelerate research of breakthrough therapies for traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress.
Allows for budget increases for the National Institutes of Health in excess of established spending limits in the event that Congress appropriates such excess funds to that agency.
Original Development Brief – Requires the creation of best practices for including information regarding a patient’s opioid use disorder history in certain medical records.
Updated lastJune 14, 2018
for the 08/04/2017 version of S 581 and the 06/12/2018 version of HR 5009.
Original Development Brief – Provides relevant background information of opioid use disorder, prenatal opioid exposure, and neonatal abstinence syndrome, reviews current activities of the HHS with relation to these issues, and recommends strategies to abate the gaps and obstacles identified in these activities.