Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse co-authored a major package of addiction legislation that just passed the House and Senate. It’s called the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, or CARA. And it addresses a range of issues, from preventing addiction among student athletes to helping veterans avoid incarceration. But many of the measures it authorizes have yet to be funded.
For this week’s The Pulse, we speak with Whitehouse about CARA and what still needs to be done to fight the nation’s opioid addiction and overdose epidemic.
