PRINTER'S NO. 1714
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
325
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY BURNS, ROZZI, PASHINSKI, BAKER, PICKETT, MILLARD,
V. BROWN, D. COSTA, McNEILL, LONGIETTI AND READSHAW,
MAY 11, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SERVICES, MAY 11, 2017
A RESOLUTION
Urging the Congress of the United States to approve the
Synthetic Trafficking and Overdose Prevention Act, which
would close a dangerous loophole in Federal shipping law that
allows illegal drugs to reach American soil.
WHEREAS, The United States is experiencing a drug overdose
epidemic; and
WHEREAS, More than 33,000 individuals died from synthetic
opioid overdoses in 2015; and
WHEREAS, Heroin overdoses killed nearly 13,000 individuals
across the nation that same year; and
WHEREAS, In Pennsylvania, an average of 67 individuals died
every week from drug overdoses, totaling nearly 3,500 overdose
deaths in 2015; and
WHEREAS, The deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl can be 40 times
more potent than heroin, with only a pinch needed to be lethal;
and
WHEREAS, The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review
Commission found that the majority of fentanyl is created in
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