Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Opioid Minority Health Report to Congress Act of 2018”.
Opioid Minority Health Report to Congress Act of 2018
A BILL
To require the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities to submit to Congress a report on the impact of the opioid epidemic on minority communities.
Sec. 2 National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities report on the impact of the opioid epidemic on minority communities
Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities shall submit to the Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, and make public on the Internet website of Department of Health and Human Services, a report on the impact of the opioid epidemic on racial and ethnic minority groups (as defined in section 1707(g) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300u–6(g))), including the following:
The scope of the epidemic within such racial and ethnic minority groups with respect to the use of prescription pain killers and illicit drug use, including synthetics.
The extent to which, and funding recommendations for how, the expansion of coverage under the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act and the Medicaid program under title XIX of such Act of medication-assisted treatment and other treatment options could decrease the incidence of opioids use and of deaths caused by opioids overdoses.
The role of participation of such racial and minority groups in clinical trials for pain management therapy and alternatives to opioids pain management and recommendations on how to increase such participation of such groups in such clinical trials.