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Tom Howell Jr. covers politics for The Washington Times. He can be reached at [email protected].

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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2018, file photo, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks at the National Governor Association 2018 winter meeting in Washington. A spokeswoman said Azar is back in the hospital for additional treatment and observation. He's been diagnosed with a painful bowel condition called diverticulitis. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

HHS Secretary Alex Azar discharged from hospital following intestinal issue

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D- Mass., speaks during a roundtable discussion at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program on Albany Street on Friday, April 6, 2018. Warren is calling for the federal government to treat the opioid addiction crisis in a way similar to how it attacked the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. (Patrick Whittemore/The Boston Herald via AP)

Democrats push for $100 billion to fight opioid crisis

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Sen. Chris Murphy, Connecticut Democrat, is shown during a committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 11, 2017. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Senate Dems propose Medicare buy-in bill

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Political activist Tom Steyer speaks during a "Need to Impeach" town hall event at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, Friday, March 16, 2018, in Cincinnati. Steyer, a billionaire activist also involved in environmental causes, founded the "Need to Impeach" petition campaign on claims that President Donald Trump meets the criteria for impeachment. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) ** FILE **

Tom Steyer endorses state Sen. Kevin de Leon over U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Report

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar appears speaks at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

HHS Secretary Alex Azar readmitted to the hospital for intestinal issue

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this March 7, 2018, file photo, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions addresses the California Peace Officers' Association at the 26th Annual Law Enforcement Legislative Day in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Attorney General Jeff Sessions: DEA will slash opioid quotas if it suspects foul play

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar attends a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the FY19 budget, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

HHS: Secretary Alex Azar suffered first bout of intestinal issue

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this April 4, 2018 photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks on a question during a town hall meeting with Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba, examining economic justice 50 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) **FILE**

Sen. Bernie Sanders takes aim at opioid companies

By Jeff Mordock and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Members of the Tohachi Boys and Girls Club leave the Youth Center in Tohachi, Ariz. Often disconnected from their traditional culture and Western society, American Indian teenagers have grown increasingly violent, drug dependent and depressed. (AP Photo file/Matt York)

Indian tribes fear being killed off by opioid epidemic

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this Feb. 24, 2018, file photo, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks at the National Governor Association 2018 winter meeting in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

HHS Secretary Alex Azar says he’s back to work after overnight hospital stay

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this April 26, 2017 file photo supporters of single-payer health care march to the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. A poll released on April 13, 2018, finds that a slim majority of Americans now support the idea of a government-run single-payer health care system. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli file) **FILE**

Slim majority of Americans now support government-run single-payer health care

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
FILE - In a Monday, June 19, 2017 file photo, U.S. Rep. Gregg Harper, R-Miss., speaks to reporters about the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, following a news conference in Canton, Miss. Harper said Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018 that he won't seek re-election this year. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

House panel to grill opioid distributors in May

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
This April 26, 2006, file photo shows different brands and dosages of fentanyl patches in St. Louis. U.S. deaths linked to opioids have quadrupled since 2000 to roughly 42,000 in 2016. Although initially driven by prescription drugs, most opioid deaths now involve illicit drugs, including heroin and fentanyl. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam, File)

Sentencing guidelines for fentanyl are ‘out of date,’ U.S. attorney warns

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam gestures as he delivers his State of the Commonwealth address before a joint session of the Virginia General Assembly as Lt. gov. Justin Fairfax, left, and House Speaker Kirk cox, R-Colonial Heights, right, listen at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**

Virginia Democrats near victory on Medicaid expansion

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
The HealthCare.gov website is photographed in Washington on Dec. 15, 2017. A burst of sign-ups is punctuating the end of a tumultuous year for former President Barack Obamas health care law. Strong consumer interest around Fridays enrollment deadline for 2018 was seen as validation for the programs subsidized individual health insurance. But the Affordable Care Acts troubles arent over. Even if full repeal now seems off the table, actions by the Republican-led Congress and the Trump administration could undermine the ACAs insurance markets. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick

Trump administration expands Obamacare penalty carve-outs

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
FILE - In this July 27, 2017, file photo Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Cindy Hyde-Smith speaks at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss. The state's governor will appoint Hyde-Smith as Mississippi's first female member of Congress to fill the Senate vacancy that will soon be created when Sen. Thad Cochran retires, three state Republicans told The Associated Press on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

VP Pence swears in Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

States scramble to avert Obamacare sticker shock after Democrats balk at stabilization effort

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, pauses for a reporter's question at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Alexander proposes bill to empower FDA in opioids fight

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Mainers for Health Care rally outside the State House prior to Gov. Paul LePage's State of the State address, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, in Augusta, Maine. The coalition that supported the successful Yes on 2 campaign to expand Medicaid in 2017 say LePage and his allies in the Legislature are trying to block Medicaid expansion, which is now state law. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Affordable health care tops ‘worry list’: Gallup poll

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this June 6, 2017, file photo, a reporter holds up an example of the amount of fentanyl that can be deadly, after a news conference about deaths from fentanyl exposure, at DEA Headquarters in Arlington, Va. The chief justice of the Massachusetts Trial Court told prosecutors she fears that allowing fentanyl and carfentanil into courtrooms as evidence puts people at risk even when the drugs are properly packaged. Some medical experts said a proposal to ban them from courtrooms appears to be driven by a misguided understanding of the real dangers of the substances. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

GOP lawmakers heed Trump’s call to crack down on opioid dealers

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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