Opioid RADAR Act

The Opioid RADAR Act (S 2699) creates federal grants to improve data collection and response to opioid overdoses. It directs the Health and Human Services Secretary to fund states and localities for better postmortem testing, data linkage, and electronic death reporting. The bill also reforms the Office of National Drug Control Policy (making it Cabinet-level), mandates standardized national data reporting across agencies, and requires states to record non-self-induced overdose deaths as homicides when evidence supports it. Additionally, it authorizes school-based grants for emergency opioid overdose kits (like naloxin), requires training for school personnel, and explicitly includes fentanyl test strips under the Controlled Substances Act. These provisions directly affect state/local health agencies, schools, and federal drug policy offices.