Brooks Leads on Efforts to Address Drug Abuse Crisis (Susan W Brooks)

(Source: Susan W Brooks) WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today, legislation introduced by Congresswoman Susan W. Brooks (R-IN5) and Congressman Joseph Kennedy (D-MA7) to improve education, awareness and enforcement programs and address the growing heroin and drug abuse epidemic in the United States was reviewed in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health. Forty-five Americans die every day due to prescription drug abuse while the number of heroin related deaths in the United States has continued to increase dramatically. A number of legislative proposals seeking to address the...