OPIOIDS Act

This bill creates and updates grants and programs to help deal with opioid overdoses. It lets the Department of Justice give money to states and local areas to improve how they track and collect data on opioid overdoses, and to help law enforcement and crime labs in areas with high overdose rates get better training and equipment for identifying overdoses, processing drug samples, and tracking illegal drug activity online. The bill also allows certain policing grant funds to be used for equipment that protects first responders from accidental exposure to fentanyl, and it requires the Drug Enforcement Administration to create standard rules for reporting drug control information and to budget for a program that analyzes fentanyl samples.

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