OPIOIDS Act

This bill, the OPIOIDS Act (S 983), provides federal funding to improve data collection and law enforcement response to opioid overdoses. It authorizes grants for states, territories, and localities to enhance postmortem toxicology testing, link overdose data across systems, and improve electronic death reporting. Law enforcement agencies in high-overdose areas receive grants for officer training, forensic lab upgrades (requiring mandatory data reporting to the National Forensic Laboratory Information System), and fentanyl exposure containment training. The bill also mandates the DEA to develop uniform data reporting standards for purity, formulation, and weight to enable better cross-jurisdictional data sharing.