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This bill, known as the "Overcoming Prevalent Inadequacies in Overdose Information Data Sets Act" (OPIOIDS Act), aims to improve data collection and tracking of opioid-related overdoses through several key provisions. The Attorney General is authorized to award grants to states, territories, and localities to enhance overdose data collection, including improving postmortem toxicology testing, data linkage across systems, electronic death reporting, and tracking both fatal and nonfatal overdoses. The bill also provides grants to local law enforcement agencies and forensic laboratories in communities with high drug overdose rates, focusing on training officers to identify overdoses, upgrading forensic laboratory systems to report data to the National Forensic Laboratory Information System (NFLIS), and improving tracking of criminal activities. Additionally, the bill requires the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to develop uniform reporting standards for the NFLIS and mandates that the DEA submit a specific funding request for the Fentanyl Signature Profiling Program to Congress annually. The legislation also expands COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services) grants to provide training and resources for first responders to prevent secondary exposure to dangerous substances like fentanyl, ultimately seeking to improve data collection, law enforcement response, and understanding of the opioid crisis.

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