![During a news conference in the Statehouse, Senator Joseph F. Vitale, D-Middlesex, the Vice Chairman of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, speaks about how the Governor](https://www.njsendems.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/030810a01.jpg)
TRENTON – Under the leadership of Senator Joseph Vitale, chairman of the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee, a bipartisan group of legislators announced on September 17, 2014, the introduction of a comprehensive bill package to tackle the heroin and prescription drug epidemic that is occurring across the state.