by William Carnes | Apr 19, 2022 | Blog
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 19 February, 2022 The Georgia Council on Substance Abuse supports HB 1175 and encourages Governor Brian Kemp to sign this bi-partisan bill which will remove strips that test for fentanyl from the list of drug paraphernalia to help make them more...
by William Carnes | Apr 12, 2022 | Blog
2022 was a historic year for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder services and reform in Georgia. With the passage of HB 1013, Georgia has set into place a series of legislative actions which will result in the transformation of a broken and ineffective system...
by William Carnes | Mar 29, 2022 | Blog
The following may be attributed to Jeff Breedlove, Chief of Policy for the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse We are appreciative that HB 1013 advanced out of the Senate HHS Committee, and we thank Chairman Ben Watson and the Committee for their efforts. ...
by William Carnes | Mar 22, 2022 | Blog
Georgians need help. My role as Speaker of the House allows me to travel all around our great state. Whether it is in downtown Atlanta or the outskirts of Albany, with a state as large as ours – both in terms of geography and population – I talk to a lot of people and...