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After three years of working with law enforcement, drug experts, and families impacted by drug use, Ohio U.S. Senator Rob Portman's Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act has been signed into law by President Obama.

CARA, designed to pay for education, treatment and recovery programs to prevent drug abuse, passed the Senate by a 92-2 vote following a 407-5 vote in the House.

"This is a historic moment in the fight against addiction", Senator Portman said in a press release. "It's a moment when we came together as a country - Democrats and Republicans alike - behind a common sense idea: finally treating addiction like the disease that it is. And with the epidemic of opiate addiction taking an American's life every 12 minutes, this may be the most urgent issue that we face".

President Obama signed the bill Friday, which authorizes $181 million in new spending.

Former President Bill Clinton was welcomed by a boisterous applause when he entered the United Steelworkers local 2 building in Akron on Saturday.

Senator Sherrod Brown introduced former President Clinton, telling him no offense, but Hillary is the best qualified presidential candidate running in his lifetime.

Speaking to a crowd of about 100 people, Clinton told the group, the country cannot afford to vote a republican as president. He says to a roaring crowd, thanks to Ohio that won't happen.

Clinton was joined by Summit County Executive Russ Pry, Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan, Congressman Tim Ryan, and former Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic, who Clinton joked with, saying he looks just as young as he did when he first came to Akron. He joked "it is a life after politics".

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was in Cleveland, speaking at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church.