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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.

Oregon officials and Becerra said prevention is key to driving down the overdoses and drug usage.

U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici plans to introduce a congressional bill in September that would provide funding for school districts nationwide to have curriculum modeled after what’s in place at the Beaverton School District, which was the first in Oregon to launch a fentanyl awareness curriculum. 

Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici will soon bring a bill to Congress that would fund a version of Beaverton’s “Fake and Fatal” program across the country and help keep kids from taking fentanyl amid an ongoing drug epidemic.

An open-source curriculum developed in Beaverton to educate tweens and teens about the ferocious risks of opioid abuse could soon be a model for schools around the country.