WASHINGTON — Over Democratic objections, Republican bargainers reached agreement Wednesday on compromise House-Senate legislation reinforcing federal anti-drug programs, edging the two chambers toward what they hope to tout as an election-year achievement.
The measure creates grants aimed at addressing a soaring problem that caused more than 47,000 U.S. drug abuse fatalities in 2014, the most recent federal figures, and a death rate that has more than doubled since 2000.
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