Correspondence
with Congressional Offices
March 10, 2006 – letter to Senators urging them to join the Senate
Anti-Methamphetamine Caucus
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the letter
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the letter
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the letter
October 19, 2005 – letter to Chairman Nathan Deal of the Subcommittee on Health and Chairman Paul Gillmor of the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, thanking them for convening a joint hearing on methamphetamine abuse and requesting that official hearing record include a copy of the Final Report of the Methamphetamine Interagency Task Force
August 30, 2005 – letter to Mark McClellan, Administrator of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), requesting that CMS issue guidance affirming the need for Prescription Drug Plans to cover products recently approved for the treatment of opioid dependence
July 25, 2005 – letter to all offices requesting support for H.R. 869/S. 45, the Drug Addiction Treatment Expansion Act, amending the Controlled Substances Act to lift the patient number limitation on physicians in group practice
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the letter
March 16, 2005 – letter to all offices reviewing NIDA’s
mission, portfolio and research priorities and requesting support for a 6%
increase in NIDA's appropriation for FY06
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the letter
February 18, 2005 – letter to all House members urging
them to join the Congressional Caucus to Fight and Control Methamphetamine
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the letter
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the letter
Congressional
Testimony and
Report Language
March
30, 2006 – written testimony submitted to the House and Senate
Appropriations Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittees on NIDA’s Fiscal Year 2007
appropriation
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the Friends of NIDA testimony to the Senate
and House
committees
April
26, 2005 - suggested report language for FY 2006 submitted to House and
Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies
Appropriations Subcommittee
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the report language
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the Friends of NIDA testimony