My priorities include ... fighting to end the scourge of drug addiction
Brett Guthrie will fight to end the scourge of drug addiction.
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Evidence
The committee announced agreement on the Kids Internet and Digital Safety (KIDS) Act, and the package specifically includes the No Fentanyl on Social Media Act.
Congress.gov lists H.R.2483 as sponsored by Rep. Brett Guthrie, introduced March 31, 2025, and says the latest action was December 1, 2025: Became Public Law No. 119-44. The bill's purpose was to reauthorize opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery programs.
Public Law 119-44 states that it is an act to reauthorize programs providing opioid use disorder prevention, treatment, and recovery. Its table of contents includes prevention, treatment, and recovery titles, including grants for opioid use disorders, first responder training, substance use disorder treatment workforce, and comprehensive opioid recovery centers.
The law reauthorizes overdose-prevention grants for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 and amends youth prevention and recovery provisions to include education and awareness of synthetic opioids, including drugs contaminated with fentanyl.
Chairman Brett Guthrie and Ranking Member Frank Pallone announced an agreement on the KIDS Act. The committee background says the bill includes the No Fentanyl on Social Media Act.
Guthrie's office reported that the House passed H.R. 7757, the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, by a vote of 267 to 117. The statement was issued by Guthrie and other Energy and Commerce leaders after House passage.
The section-by-section summary says the KIDS Act incorporates the No Fentanyl on Social Media Act and directs the FTC to report on minors' access to fentanyl on social media, how drug sellers use social media, platform design impacts, platform solutions, and recommendations to Congress.
Public Law 119-26 amended the Controlled Substances Act with respect to fentanyl-related substances, class scheduling them and adding penalties for fentanyl-related substances in distribution and import/export provisions.
CDC reported that in 2023, 105,007 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States, with an age-adjusted rate of 31.3 deaths per 100,000. CDC also reported that synthetic opioids other than methadone, including fentanyl, remained a major overdose category.
CDC's provisional overdose dashboard, based on data available for analysis on June 7, 2026, continues to present monthly 12-month-ending reported and predicted provisional counts of drug overdose deaths and deaths involving drug classes including opioids and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl.
Assessments
Guthrie materially advanced federal anti-addiction policy during his House service, including sponsoring H.R. 2483, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025, which became Public Law 119-44 and reauthorized opioid prevention, treatment, recovery, overdose-prevention, workforce, and youth fentanyl-awareness programs. He also advanced a KIDS Act package with a fentanyl-on-social-media component. These actions are directly relevant to fighting drug addiction, but the evidence does not show that the broader scourge of drug addiction was ended, and continuing overdose mortality undercuts full delivery.
Guthrie has taken a concrete anti-drug step in office by advancing a committee package that includes the No Fentanyl on Social Media Act, which is relevant to combating addiction and fentanyl exposure. That shows meaningful effort and some policy progress in the same term, but the evidence is limited to a narrow fentanyl-related action and does not demonstrate that the broader promise to end the scourge of drug addiction was fully delivered.