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This Act may be cited as the . Opioid Abuse Crisis Act of 2016 The table of contents is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Title I—Public Health Provisions Sec. 101. Funding for opioid and heroin abuse prevention and treatment. Sec. 102. Opioid overdose reversal drugs prescribing grant program. Sec. 103. Partial fills of schedule II controlled substances. Sec. 104. Opioid use disorder treatment modernization. Sec. 105. Nurturing and supporting healthy babies.
Sec. 106. Improving treatment for pregnant and postpartum women. Sec. 107. Assisting veterans with military emergency medical training to meet requirements for becoming civilian emergency medical technicians. Sec. 108. Information materials and resources to prevent addiction related to youth sports injuries. Sec. 109. Lali’s Law. Sec. 110. Opioid review modernization. Sec. 111. Study on treatment infrastructure. Sec. 112. National youth recovery initiative. Sec. 113. Building communities of recovery.
Title II—Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction Sec. 201. Comprehensive opioid abuse grant program. Sec. 202. Audit and accountability of grantees. Sec. 203. Veterans treatment courts. Sec. 204. Emergency Federal law enforcement assistance. Sec. 205. Opioid Program Evaluation Act. Sec. 206. Good Samaritan Assessment Act. Title III—Promoting Responsible Opioid Management and Incorporating Scientific Expertise Sec. 301. Short title. Subtitle A—Opioid Therapy and Pain Management Sec. 311.
Guidelines on management of opioid therapy by Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense and implementation of such guidelines by Department of Veterans Affairs. Sec. 312. Improvement of opioid safety measures by Department of Veterans Affairs. Sec. 313. Strengthening of joint working group on pain management of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense. Sec. 314. Review, investigation, and report on use of opioids in treatment by Department of Veterans Affairs.
Subtitle B—Patient Advocacy Sec. 321. Community meetings on improving care furnished by Department of Veterans Affairs. Sec. 322. Improvement of awareness of patient advocacy program and patient bill of rights of Department of Veterans Affairs. Sec. 323. Comptroller general report on patient advocacy program of Department of Veterans Affairs. Subtitle C—Complementary and Integrative Health Sec. 331. Expansion of research and education on and delivery of complementary and integrative health to veterans.
Sec. 332. Pilot program on integration of complementary alternative medicines and related issues for veterans and family members of veterans. Subtitle D—Fitness of Health Care Providers Sec. 341. Additional requirements for hiring of health care providers by Department of Veterans Affairs. Sec. 342. Provision of information on health care providers of Department of Veterans Affairs to State Medical Boards. Sec. 343. Report on compliance by Department of Veterans Affairs with reviews of health care providers leaving the Department or transferring to other facilities.
Subtitle E—Other Veterans Matters Sec. 351. Audit of Veterans Health Administration programs of Department of Veterans Affairs. Title IV—Improving Safe Care for Preventing Infant Abuse and Neglect Sec. 401. Short title. Sec. 402. Best practices for development of plans of safe care. Sec. 403. State plans. Sec. 404. Data reports. Sec. 405. Monitoring and oversight. Sec. 406. Rule of construction. Title V—Other Provisions Sec. 501. Programs to prevent prescription drug abuse under Medicare parts C and D.
Sec. 502. Exclusion of authorized generic drugs from calculation of average manufacturer price for brand name drugs.