Major push to combat opioid abuse doesn’t include bill to restore DEA powers

Published April 11, 2018 4:00am ET



Congress is expected to make a major push in the next few months to approve dozens of bipartisan bills to combat the opioid epidemic.

But missing from this effort is a bill to reverse a 2016 law that weakened the Drug Enforcement Administration’s power to go after suspicious drug distributors.

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