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H.R. 5782

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Opioid Crisis Accountability Act of 2018
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Committee
Latest Action · May 31, 2018
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Congress
115th (2017–2019)
Introduced
May 11, 2018
Cosponsors (5)
5D 0R
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Opioid Crisis Accountability Act of 2018 This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit a drug manufacturer from engaging in illegal marketing and distribution practices, including falsely advertising, promoting, or marketing that an opioid has no addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining qualities or risks, supplying states or communities with a quantity of opioids that is not medically necessary, or failing to report any order or pattern of orders that would cause a reasonable person to believe the opioids were not being dispensed in a medically reasonable manner.

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