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This bill, known as the "OPIOIDS Act" (Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets Act), aims to improve data collection and law enforcement responses to the opioid crisis. The Attorney General is authorized to award grants to states, territories, and local jurisdictions to enhance data collection on opioid-related overdoses, including supporting improved postmortem toxicology testing, cross-system data linkage, electronic death reporting, and training for law enforcement. The bill provides specific grants for local law enforcement and forensic laboratories in high-overdose communities, focusing on helping officers identify overdoses, upgrading drug tracing and forensic sample processing systems, and improving medical examiner and coroner services. Additionally, the bill requires grantees to submit overdose data to the National Forensic Laboratory Information System, mandates that Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers provide coordination training, and expands COPS grants to include training and resources for preventing secondary exposure to dangerous substances like fentanyl. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is tasked with developing uniform reporting standards for drug data and will be required to submit a specific budget line item for the Fentanyl Signature Profiling Program to Congress annually, all with the goal of better understanding and combating the opioid epidemic.

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