The House on Wednesday easily passed legislation aimed at curbing opioid abuse, but without Democratic language to add more funding to the effort.
The legislation to create a task force to curb prescribing of opioids is among 18 bills that the House is trying to pass this week that deal with the opioid and heroin epidemic, which federal figures show kills 72 people each day.
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