Opioid Crisis

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Member of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, and U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) introduced the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program (RCORP) Authorization Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to  maintain the Rural Communities Opioid Response Program, which was…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) joined Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in introducing the Maximizing Opioid Recovery Emergency (MORE) Savings Act, legislation to make it easier for individuals struggling with an opioid-use disorder (OUD) to access evidence-based treatment. The Senators’ legislation would eliminate…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) announced the reintroduction of the bipartisan, bicameral Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets (OPIOIDS) Act to confront the devastating opioid crisis that claims the lives of more than 70,000…

BURLINGTON, VT – During National Recovery Month, Senator Welch welcomed $2 million from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention to the DREAM Project, an organization providing Vermont’s youth with peer-to-peer mentoring services which prevent high-risk behaviors such as substance misuse…

Senator Peter Welch [D-VT] outside the Banner office in Bennington on Thursday Tim Wassberg - Bennington Banner With the recent change in presidential nominee on the Democratic side, a swath of flooding and climate issues in Vermont, housing concerns and education roadblocks, Senator Peter Welch…