Addiction and overdoses

“To help our police attack the fentanyl and overdose crisis, Andy fought for additional federal resources to help local communities with drug enforcement, prevention efforts, and rehabilitation for people struggling with addiction.”

“It means roads and bridges that let ambulances and fire trucks get there fast. It means making sure firehouses, EMTs, and police have the training and equipment they need, and that communities trust the people sworn to protect them. It means investing in mental health and addiction services so our ERs and firehouses aren’t the only safety net. It means defending the collective bargaining right of first responders.”

“People experiencing homelessness or struggling with addiction are a part of our community, and we must address these challenges as a community. Peggy believes that we must invest in affordable housing and building systems of care for our neighbors.”

“Passed laws expanding insurance coverage, mental health supports, recovery housing, and opioid treatment reporting.”

“Introduced legislation that became law which permits health insurers to provide coverage for recovery housing for persons with substance use disorders (Public Act 100-1065)”

“Advocating for behavioral health funding and recovery support programs.”

“My top priorities in Washington will be protecting Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA access, bringing more behavioral health and recovery services to our neighborhoods, and expanding preventive care so families do not have to wait until they are in crisis to get help.”

“Our district needs more counselors, more recovery programs, and easier access to care. I will support federal investments that bring behavioral health resources into neighborhoods.”

“I co-founded the West Side Heroin Opioid Task Force to expand access to recovery care.”

“I have spent years working alongside public health leaders, harm reduction teams, and community organizations to expand access to treatment, distribute naloxone, support drug checking, and reduce overdose deaths.”

“As a Member of Congress, I will fight to restore these funds, protect evidence-based addiction treatment, and ensure that federal policy supports, not sabotages, local public health work. We should be expanding access to care, not pulling the rug out from under communities doing the hard work on the ground.”

“La Shawn K. Ford has been a leading advocate for addiction prevention, harm reduction, and mental health access in Illinois, including efforts to expand overdose prevention strategies and community-based treatment models that have helped reduce overdose deaths across Chicago.”

“I’ll also expand mental health and substance use treatment and push for increased support for rural providers—because nobody should have to drive 90 miles or wait six months to see a doctor.”

“Mental health care, including trauma-informed therapy and substance use support”

“Expand access to gender-affirming care, addiction treatment, and long-term care”

“Increase Medicaid reimbursement rates and federal grant funding for mental health and substance use disorder services”

“Expand peer support programs, housing-first recovery models, and culturally competent care”

“On Thursday, Feb. 28, the Maine Senate sent an amended proposal from Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, that would improve access to treatment and recovery programs available through the courts, to the Governor’s desk.”

“Medicaid expansion is essential to keeping the doors on our rural hospitals open, providing individuals with the tools to combat addiction, and stabilizing health care costs for everyone. Not to mention, it will provide health care coverage to an estimated 70,000 Mainers.”

“I will always fight for the healthcare resources that our community needs, including mental health and substance use care.”

“Housing is the foundation every person needs to live with dignity and stability, yet too many Americans are being pushed out, priced out, or left out entirely. We can’t fix this crisis with the same failed approaches. We need a bold, housing-first strategy that treats homelessness as a public health issue, not a criminal one. That means investing in wraparound services for mental illness and addiction, building long-term housing for all, and federally subsidizing 30% of all new housing developments to ensure affordable, dignified housing is truly accessible.”

“I’ve kept health centers open, helped expand health insurance to 92% of all Californians, and successfully fought to add thousands of additional mental health and addiction beds across the state.”

“To help our police attack the fentanyl and overdose crisis, Andy fought for additional federal resources to help local communities with drug enforcement, prevention efforts, and rehabilitation for people struggling with addiction.”

“He also focused on boosting public education, tackling the opioid crisis, revitalizing rural communities and making sure North Carolinians have the training to fill the better-paying jobs that require new skills.”

“Roy has worked across party lines to combat the opioid crisis in North Carolina. He launched the state’s first Opioid Action Plan in 2017 and, as a result, opioid prescriptions have dropped by 24 percent, emergency room visits for opioid misuse have declined by 10 percent and opioid related deaths have decreased by 5 percent. He also serves on the national Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis.”

“Abdul spearheaded an initiative to combat the opioid crisis by making life-saving naloxone more widely available, and under his leadership, overdose deaths in Wayne County decreased 42% in 2024.”

“Co-founded the West Side Heroin/Opioid Task Force, now a national model for overdose response.”

“Co-sponsor of House Bill 1, which became Public Act 99-0480 as the Heroin Crisis Act”

“Leader and Co-founder of the West Side Heroin/Opioid Task Force, formed to bring attention to and promote solutions regarding the severe increase in deaths due to overdoses affecting the West Side of Chicago”

“Helping establish the West Side Heroin and Opioid Task Force, which contributed to a decrease in overdose deaths and ambulance responses.”

“I have spent years working alongside public health leaders, harm reduction teams, and community organizations to expand access to treatment, distribute naloxone, support drug checking, and reduce overdose deaths.”

“On the New Hampshire Executive Council, Chris voted to expand Medicaid, one of the most important tools in the fight against the opioid and substance use epidemic.”

“Equipped every public school with Narcan to fight the teen overdose crisis.”

“She pioneered programs to support victims of human trafficking, created a task force to tackle the opioid epidemic, and worked alongside law enforcement to get illegal guns off the streets.”

“Abdul spearheaded an initiative to combat the opioid crisis by making life-saving naloxone more widely available, and under his leadership, overdose deaths in Wayne County decreased 42% in 2024.”

“As a public servant, Abdul secured free glasses for kids who needed them, removed lead from Detroit’s elementary schools, took on Michigan’s biggest polluters, and made life-saving Narcan universally accessible.”

“I have spent years working alongside public health leaders, harm reduction teams, and community organizations to expand access to treatment, distribute naloxone, support drug checking, and reduce overdose deaths.”

“La Shawn K. Ford has been a leading advocate for addiction prevention, harm reduction, and mental health access in Illinois, including efforts to expand overdose prevention strategies and community-based treatment models that have helped reduce overdose deaths across Chicago.”

“Equipped every public school with Narcan to fight the teen overdose crisis.”

“Expand federal resources for fentanyl treatment, including naloxone access and overdose prevention programs, so people struggling with addiction get help before it's too late.”

“To help our police attack the fentanyl and overdose crisis, Andy fought for additional federal resources to help local communities with drug enforcement, prevention efforts, and rehabilitation for people struggling with addiction.”

“In Congress, I’ll fight to stop the illegal flow of fentanyl and other illicit drugs across our southern border, while making sure Arizonans suffering from addiction can get the help they need”

“That is why Chris is committed to providing every available resource to help law enforcement keep deadly drugs like fentanyl off our streets and ensure Granite Staters suffering from addiction get the care and treatment they need.”

“Introduced legislation (HB 110) in the 102nd GA and HB 2929 in the 104th GA for which Department of Human Services shall have the authority to approve any pilot overdose prevention site, including establishing minimum standards for patient, client, and participant safety and compliance and monitoring procedures; passed committee with bipartisan support, now in Rules”

“SB 57 (Authors: Wiener; bill vetoed): Safe consumption sites. SB 57 allows San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles to pilot safe consumption site programs. These sites are supervised facilities, with healthcare professionals, where people who are addicted can consume their drugs under supervision in a safe and healthy setting. These sites have been wildly successful where they’ve been implemented in New York CIty, Canada, Australia, and Europe. The results speak for themselves: a majority of individuals ultimately transition into recovery, infections go down, overdoses drop (there’s never been a fatal overdose in one of these sites), crime goes down in the surrounding area, and syringe litter decreases.”

“Scott has worked to expand these spaces, securing funding for meth sobering sites and twice passing statewide legislation to allow safe consumption sites, despite opposition that ultimately led to the measures' veto.”

“As a Member of Congress, I will fight to restore these funds, protect evidence-based addiction treatment, and ensure that federal policy supports, not sabotages, local public health work. We should be expanding access to care, not pulling the rug out from under communities doing the hard work on the ground.”

“In Congress Chris secured federal funding to bolster treatment and mental health care across New Hampshire, is fighting to restore the Trump Administration cuts to state addiction treatment programs, and fiercely opposed the Republican budget plan that slashed Medicaid.”

“A bill from Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, that seeks to improve patient access to new non-opioid pain relievers, was signed into law by Governor Janet T. Mills on Monday.”

“Guarantee those who serve our country and their families have the food and healthcare they need by reversing cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, restoring ACA tax credits, allowing military children to remain on TRICARE until age 26, and supporting access to alternative pain medicines and non-drug therapies to combat opioid dependency.”

“Forced opioid companies and chemical polluters to pay millions for the damage they caused.”

“Back home in San Diego County, Marni served as a civil prosecutor in the City Attorney’s Office, where she sued special interests ripping us off – price gougers during the pandemic, corporate polluters for toxic dumping , and the opioid industry for the addiction and devastation they caused.”

“Prosecuted opioid manufacturers as Deputy City Attorney, holding them accountable for fueling the addiction crisis in San Diego communities.”

“As Deputy City Attorney in San Diego, Marni took on the opioid industry for the harm they caused our communities — and she’ll take that same fight to Congress.”

“SB 1045/SB 40 (Author: Wiener): These two pieces of legislation create a new conservatorship tool to help the most debilitated people on our streets get the help they need: people with severe mental health and addiction issues who are dying and who are incapable of accepting voluntary services. It’s inhumane to allow these residents to unravel and ultimately die on our streets. These two laws, in combination, will allow San Francisco’s Department of Public Health to place these individuals in crisis into a six month conservatorship in order to get them the help they need, get them healthy, and eventually transition them into permanent housing. The Mayor and Board of Supervisors are currently implementing this state law.”

“SB 1045 (2018): Gives San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego counties greater flexibility to expand and modernize the conservatorship system, providing support for individuals experiencing chronic homelessness along with severe mental illness, substance use disorders, repeated psychiatric hospitalizations, or frequent emergency medical service use.”

“Fentanyl alone kills between 50,000 and 100,000 Americans every year. Lamb calls it what it is — terrorism. Funded by cartels. Enabled by open border policies.”