WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- Sen. Cory Booker issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced the Freedom to Heal Act, legislation that would create a narrow, DEA regulated system for physicians to administer Schedule I substances to patients with life-threatening conditions in accordance with the federal Right to Try law. U.S. Representatives Madeleine Dean (D-PA-04) and Nancy Mace (R-SC-01) introduced companion legislation in the House.
The federal Right to Try law permits patients who have been diagnosed with life-threatening diseases or conditions, and who have exhausted all approved treatment options, access to certain treatments that have not yet received final FDA approval. In ge...