St. Xavier Nursing Students Demand Repeal of HR471.

HR471 has tied the hands of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to stop the excessive use flow of excessive amounts of Opioids into hands of local pharmacies and Pain Clinics to make money. We feel that this Act will only further the opioid crisis by taking away the DEA’s power and authority to go after the pharmaceutical companies. Profit is clearly what is driving this action. Statewide Drug Overdose Trends Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) data shows 2,278 drug-related overdose deaths during 2016. This represents a 44.3 percent increase over the 1,579 drug related overdose deaths that were reported by IDPH
for 2013