Health Care

U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici visited Clatsop County on Tuesday, where she heard an update on the rehabiliation project at the South Jetty, learned about local food initiatives at the Astoria Food Hub and visited the Astoria Birth Center.

Students are getting ready to return to their classrooms and members of Congress are finishing up their in-district work before they head back to the U.S. Capitol.

One of those members, Oregon Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, announced during a roundtable event earlier this month that she will be introducing legislation once Congress resumes, to educate students about the synthetic opioid drug, fentanyl.

Bonamici’s proposed bill, which she plans to introduce in September, will be based on the Beaverton School District's “Fake and Fatal” program — a campaign educating students to prevent deaths from opioids and other counterfeit pills.

“These are complex issues that did not start overnight,” Bonamici said. “My bill will create a pilot program encouraging the partnerships that we need among state departments of education, school districts, public health agencies and nonprofit partners to raise awareness and develop prevention education programs.”

 U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici plans to soon introduce a bill in Congress that would provide grant funding to school districts nationwide educating students on the dangers of fentanyl and counterfeit pills.

 U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, is planning to introduce new legislation next month on Capitol Hill to provide grants to school districts across the country for fentanyl awareness programs.