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Babies of the opioid epidemic: Bipartisan bill sails through US House. Lisa Collinsworth holds her infant son Luke during an October visit with him at Lily's Place, a treatment center for opioid-dependent newborns in Huntington, W.Va. On May 11, a bill seeking to better support babies born with a dependency on opioid drugs passed unanimously in the US House of Representatives. A bill seeking to better support babies born with a dependency on opioid drugs has passed unanimously in the US House of Representatives. As part of a suite of bills targeting the opioid epidemic sweeping the nation, the US House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation Wednesday to raise the standard of safety planning for children born with a dependency on opiates. A similar bill awaits consideration in the Senate, one of more than a dozen aiming to address the addiction to pain pills and cheap heroin that has swept across the United States. The legislation was born as a result ...

Wolf Administration pushes for more funding to combat heroin and opioid epidemic. Human Services Secretary Ted Dallas discusses new effort to combat opiod epidemic Saying it's time to try a new approach to try to combat opiod addiction, Dallas discusses rationale behind Gov. Tom Wolf's proposal to spend $34 million to implement 50 centers to provide more coordinated care that will look not just at addressing...  Some $630 million a year in Medicaid funding goes toward combating the heroin and opioid epidemic in Pennsylvania but the results don't show it making much of a difference, said Human Services Secretary Ted Dallas.  Four out of every five Medicaid recipients with substance abuse addictions are not in treatment even after they overdose, he said. So Gov. Tom Wolf's administration believes it's time to try something different.   That's what the proposed Centers of Excellence, as the administration is calling them, are about. They are places th...