Issue Position: Committed to Finding Ways to Expand & Improve the HOPE Agenda

Issue Position

During Nancy's first legislative session, she and her colleagues passed a package of bills aimed at expanding the Heroin, Opiate Prevention, and Education (HOPE) Agenda with the goal of combating prescription drug abuse and addiction. They took steps to help prescribers, dispensers and law enforcement to gather information and analyze data to reduce problems like over-prescribing and the illegal sale of drugs.

OUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT:

We have approved multiple bills aimed at expanding the HOPE Agenda with the goal of stopping addiction before it begins.
We have worked with law enforcement, the medical community, and advocates statewide on efforts to stop over-prescribing of addictive prescription drugs.
The expansion will also focus on streamlining state regulations so that more people will have access to treatment and diversion programs. Unlike incarceration, these programs help people addicted to opiods become and remain successful members of society.
It is important to understand that there are legitimate reasons for prescription opiods and we have no intention to prevent people in medical need of these medications from receiving them.
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Nancy is so proud of the work they've done and believe we are moving in the right direction. Nancy remains committed to finding ways to expand and improve the HOPE Agenda to combat this epidemic.

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