Whitfield Pushes for Additional Resources to Help States Combat Prescription Drug Abuse

Published March 21, 2014

Whitfield Pushes for Additional Resources to Help States Combat Prescription Drug Abuse – WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield (KY-01), recently pushed for the reauthorization of his bipartisan legislation, H.R. 3528, the National All Schedu…

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