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Senate Judiciary Hearing: Witnesses Urge Congress to Make Fentanyl-Related-Substance Scheduling Permanent
Summary
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, bereaved parents, physicians and law enforcement urged passage of the HALT Fentanyl Act to permanently classify fentanyl-related substances (FRSs) as Schedule I, arguing class scheduling prevents new deadly analogs from entering the market.
Senate Judiciary Committee members and witnesses at a hearing on fentanyl said Congress should permanently classify fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act to stop drug manufacturers from creating new, lethal analogs.
The push for permanent class scheduling was led in testimony and remarks by family members who lost children to illicit fentanyl, emergency physicians who helped draft FRS scheduling language and law enforcement officials. Chairman Chuck Grassley told the committee, "It's time to make this temporary scheduling permanent so that the drug cartels do not have the opportunity to flood our country with even deadlier versions of fentanyl."
The argument for permanent scheduling centers on prevention: Dr. Tom Westlake, an emergency physician who described himself as the architect…
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