Sec. 6. Awareness campaigns
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall advance the education and awareness of the public, providers, patients, and other appropriate stakeholders regarding the risk of abuse of prescription opioid drugs if such products are not taken as prescribed. The Office of National Drug Control Policy, in coordination with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General, shall establish a national drug awareness campaign. The national drug awareness campaign under paragraph
(1)shall— take into account the association between prescription opioid abuse and heroin use; emphasize the similarities between heroin and prescription opioids and the effects of heroin and prescription opioids on the human body; and bring greater public awareness to the dangerous effects of fentanyl when mixed with heroin or abused in a similar manner. Funds for the national drug awareness campaign may be derived from amounts appropriated to the Office of National Drug Control Policy and otherwise available for obligation and expenditure.