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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Apr 27, 1999
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Pharmacotherapy Research Title II: Patent Protections for Pharmacotherapies Title III: Encouraging Private Sector Development of Pharamacotherapies New Medications to Treat Addiction Act of 1999 - Title I: Pharmacotherapy Research - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations as necessary to carry out provisions relating to development of medications to treat drug addiction, allowing specified sums of those amounts to be appropriated from the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund. Title II: Patent Protections for Pharmacotherapies - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to add references to drugs for the treatment of addiction to illegal drugs to provisions relating to drugs for rare diseases or conditions, allowing exclusive approval, certification, or licensure, subject to exception. Requires that the sponsor of such a treatment drug be encouraged to design open protocols. Title III: Encouraging Private Sector Development of Pharmacotherapies - Mandates establishment of criteria for an acceptable drug for the treatment of addiction to cocaine and an acceptable drug for the treatment of addiction to heroin. Allows the patent owner of a drug to treat cocaine or heroin addiction to apply to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to sell the patent rights to, or make an exclusive licensing agreement with, the Secretary. Sets the purchase amount at $100 million for the cocaine treatment drug and $50 million for the heroin treatment drug. Directs the Secretary, after the sale or licensing, to develop a manufacturing and distribution plan. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title.
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Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE] · D–DE
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on HELP.
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