Garcia Co-Sponsors Bill To Maintain Controlled Substance Status Of Fentanyl
Taking action against the opioid epidemic, Congressman Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, co-sponsored the “Stopping Overdoses of Fentanyl Analogues (SOFA) Act” on Thursday, which would ensure that fentanyl-related substances are to remain federally controlled if approved by Congress.
Garcia is urging Congress to permanently define fentanyl-related substances under Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act in order to maintain their status as controlled substances, as well as add five additional fentanyl analogs.
On February 6, 2018, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) used their emergency scheduling authority to temporarily place certain fentanyl analogs onto Schedule I of the list of controlled substances, allowing the DEA to better combat the opioid epidemic, according to Garcia’s office.
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Prioritizing Science Over Fear: An Interdisciplinary Response to Fentanyl Analogues Confirmation
Here is a description of the event from the DEPC main event page:
In recent years, the illicit drug market around the world has seen a major rise in the production and use of synthetic drugs, including the rapid development of analogues of conventional drugs such as marijuana, amphetamine, and opiates. Since 2015, fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, and its analogues have increasingly emerged in the illegal drug market in the U.S., most often added to heroin or sold in counterfeit opioid prescription pills. In 2018, 30,000 overdose deaths in the U.S. involved synthetic opioids.