II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 2354 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES July 31, 2019 Mr. Coons (for himself and Mr. Gardner ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation A BILL To direct the Director of the National Science Foundation to support research on opioid addiction, and for other purposes.

1. Short title; findings (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Expanding Findings for Federal Opioid Research and Treatment Act or the EFFORT Act . (b) Findings The Congress finds that— (1) research gaps currently exist in the prevention and treatment of opioid addiction; (2) the National Science Foundation’s research on opioid addiction has increased understanding of the neuroscience of addiction, substance abuse intervention, the role of illicit supply networks, the secondary effects on families, the use of technology to address the opioid epidemic, and options for alternative, non-addictive therapeutics for pain; and (3) the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health have recognized that fundamental questions in basic, clinical, and translational research would benefit greatly from multidisciplinary approaches and collaboration. 2. NSF support of research on opioid addiction The Director of the National Science Foundation, in consultation with the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall support merit-reviewed and competitively awarded research on the science of opioid addiction.