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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Soldiers who handled service dogs overseas should have gotten the chance to adopt them but did not, and a report blasts the U.S. Army for failing to make that happen.

Veteran Brad Perry served in Afghanistan searching for improvised explosive devices with the help of his partner Bodi, a Tactical Explosive Detection Dog.

Perry said he was told he could adopt Bodi after his service but never got the chance.

“I wanted to be there for my dog the way he was for me but I couldn't,” Perry said.

Washington (CNN)The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee will hear a set of more than 20 bipartisan bills during its second hearing focusing on addressing the opioid crisis, CNN has learned.

While most hearings on legislation don't last more than a day, this hearing is scheduled to begin on March 21 and will last for two days, committee Republican aides tell CNN.

Last month, North Carolina’s U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson introduced the “Safe Disposal of Unused Medication Act,” a bipartisan response to the opioid crisis that could help prevent the misuse or diversion of unused medications.

The bill would give hospice professionals the legal authority to safely dispose of unused drugs after a hospice patient’s death. That would ensure medicine is not diverted out into the community.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan MISSION ZERO Act introduced by Representative Richard Hudson (D-NC). The legislation will assist assigning Department of Defense trauma surgeons to civilian trauma centers, filling a gap in care observed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.