Congressman Mike Kennedy is asking Congress to pass legislation to require substance-abuse clinics to report to doctors the medications they prescribe.
The Utah Republican argues such laws protect the privacy of patients but also put them in danger of taking drugs in combination that could result in dangerous, if not deadly, consequences.
Under the federal Public Health Service Act, substance abuse clinics don’t file reports to the state-run Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs.
The legislation Kennedy introduced earlier this month, titled the Safe Prescribing Through Reporting Act of 2025, aims to amend the federal law to increase transparency and allow substance-abuse-disorder medications to be reported in the state’s PDMP.
“That’s not a partisan issue,” he said on a recent John Solomon Reports podcast. “It’s reducing opioid overdose deaths. It’s reducing the likelihood that somebody’s going to have a critical side effect of combining medicines.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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