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McConnell said the funding will be welcome news to those in Kentucky and across the county working to rth opioid abuse. “e implementation of the 21st Century Cures bill, bipartisan legislation that I helped shepherd through the Senate, will bolster medical innovation by promoting critical investments in research and treatment development,” said McConnell in a statement. “It also puts patients rst and helps strengthen the kind of research and treatments needed to cure the most devastating diseases.” In addition to providing funding to ght the drug epidemic, the Cures Act will provide nearly $5 billion over the next several years to the National Institutes of Heath for research into genetic, lifestyle and environmental variations of disease. It will also improve and strengthen America’s mental health system, strengthen pediatric and high risk/high reward medical research and support a “Eureka Prize Competition” to foster research that could realize signicant advancements in health outcomes and disease treatments. “Kentucky has been particularly hard hit by the opioid and drug addiction crisis,” said Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky, in a statement to e Register. “While no single program or grant will solve this epidemic, these funds will help Kentucky ght back. I am proud to have voted for the 21st Century Cures Act which made this funding possible, and I remain committed to doing more to prevent drug addiction and to help more Kentuckians recover.”

“Priority populations we hope to impact include pregnant and parenting women with an opioid abuse disorder.”

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