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H.R.5261 - Treatment, Education, and Community Help to Combat Addiction Act of 2018115th Congress (2017-2018) |

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Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Bill [R-OH-6] (Introduced 03/13/2018)
Committees: House - Energy and Commerce | Senate - Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Latest Action: Senate - 06/13/2018 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.  (All Actions)

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This bill has the status Passed House

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  2. Passed House
  3. Passed Senate
  4. To President
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Introduced in House (03/13/2018)

Treatment, Education, and Community Help to Combat Addiction Act of 2018 or the TEACH to Combat Addiction Act of 2018

This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services to designate Regional Centers of Excellence in Substance Use Disorder Education and provide support to such centers to enhance and improve pain management and substance use disorder education through the distribution of evidence-based curricula for health care professional schools.

The bill provides statutory authority for the National Institutes of Health's Centers for Excellence in Pain Education program, under which the centers provide for the coordination of the development, evaluation, and distribution of pain management curricula for health professional schools.