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House hearing spotlights HALT Fentanyl Act as bipartisan tool to curb fentanyl-related substances
Summary
Members of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and witnesses urged Congress to pass the HALT Fentanyl Act, a measure to permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I while preserving research access; witnesses described class scheduling as a targeted preventive tool distinct from interdiction of illicit fentanyl.
Lawmakers and expert witnesses at a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing urged passage of the HALT Fentanyl Act, legislation that would permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances (FRSs) as Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act and create regulatory paths intended to protect research.
Supporters said class scheduling would remove an incentive for chemists to tweak molecular structures to evade prohibitions. "Class scheduling simply removes the incentive to create new FRSs and has been proven to do what it was designed to do, halt their very creation," said Dr. Timothy Westlake, an emergency…
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