Source: FARM PROGRESS, 5/12/21

Reps. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, and Conor Lamb, D-Pa., along with original cosponsors Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, and Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., introduced a bipartisan bill -- the Rural Area Opioid Prevention Pilot Program Act -- that aims to reduce opioid overdose deaths and provide alternatives to incarceration by implementing pilot response programs in rural communities. Since early 2020, 21 rural American communities that have borne the brunt of the opioid epidemic have received federal funding to develop...

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