PRINTER'S NO. 2803
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
597
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY BARRAR, BIZZARRO, BROWN, HILL-EVANS, JONES,
KAUFFMAN, KORTZ, MARSHALL, RYAN, SCHLOSSBERG, SONNEY,
YOUNGBLOOD, DiGIROLAMO, LONGIETTI, BERNSTINE, SAINATO,
DeLUCA, BURNS AND KINSEY, OCTOBER 29, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH, OCTOBER 29, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing the month of October 2019 as "Chiropractic Health
Month" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania-licensed doctors of chiropractic are
educated and trained to effectively address spinal and
neuromusculoskeletal pain with nonsurgical, nondrug management;
and
WHEREAS, Prescription opioid use and abuse leading to
addiction and catastrophic outcomes has become a national
crisis; and
WHEREAS, The leading cause of injury death in the United
States is drug overdose and a majority of the deaths from drug
overdoses involved an opioid; and
WHEREAS, From 1999 until 2017, more than 400,000 people in
the United States died from prescription opioid-related
overdose, with more than 70,000 of those deaths occurring in
2017 at the rate of 130 overdose deaths per day; and
WHEREAS, Overdose deaths from prescription opioids, which
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