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A cigarette box of pills that was found with two people in an abandoned home in Dayton, Ohio, is seen in a Aug. 3, 2017, file photograph. Benjamin Chasteen/The Epoch Times
A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate is aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic in rural areas of the United States.
Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have teamed to introduce the proposal (pdf), which is called the Rural Opioid Abuse Prevention Act.
