WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:

Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the Primary Health and Pensions subcommittee of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today celebrated the passage of his bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) ongoing initiative to eliminate the risk of infectious disease caused by substance use disorder to continue through 2030. The legislation was included in the larger SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act, which was signed into law on December 1.

In 2018, Senators Markey, Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), and Todd Young (R-Ind.) secured the passage (https://www.markey...