Local lawmakers are touting House passage of a bill to continue the fight against the opioid epidemic.  New Milford state Representative Bill Buckbee and Wilton Representative Tom O'Dea partnered with others on the measure, which passed the state House unanimously.  The bill makes various changes affecting opioid use prevention and treatment.  It allows practitioners authorized to prescribe controlled substances to treat patients by dispensing things like methadone from a mobile unit and allows multi-care institutions to provide behavioral health services or substance use disorder treatment services in a mobile narcotic treatment program.  It also removes from the statutory definition of “drug paraphernalia” products used by licensed drug manufacturers or individuals to test a substance before they ingest, inject, or inhale it.  This applied to things like fentanyl testing strips, as long as they are not using the products to engage in unlicensed manufacturing or distribution of controlled substances.