Senators Mike Braun and Joe Manchin recently introduced Tyler’s Law.

It’s a bill directing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide hospitals with guidance on how emergency rooms can implement fentanyl testing in routine drug screens.

The bill is named for Tyler Shamash who lost his life to a fentanyl overdose after not being tested for fentanyl upon being checked into the ER.

Nearly 70 percent of all overdose deaths last year were related to fentanyl, though many drug screenings in the ER only test for marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, opiates and PCP.

Their hope is that adding fentanyl to routine drug screenings will prevent many deaths, especially as numbers continue increasing.