Order and for an opening statement. In the midst of a fierce battle against an epidemic by opioids. This crisis has touched every corner of american society. Whielt new england and the regions represent states hardest hit by the epidemic. Health officials from the south and reaching across the Mountain West all reported growing over dose deaths in those counties. The latest deaths is astounding. 91 americans died every day from an over dose. Now more than ever we must come together and strengthen our commitment to fight this malady. I expect todays member state will bring to the forefront key insights and solutions on this critical issue. The energy in Congress Committee led several bipartisan initiatives. And the comprehensive Addiction Recovery alct and the 21st century act are now law at the state and local levels. Much needed policy changes are being implemented. The inflicted passage of kara and cures. As a result, patients now have greater access to evidencebased treatment, adiks
Those are only two of my good things. I dont want to tell you about the bad things. But he really helped me. I had had had somebody that guided me and he had a very, very tough life because of alcohol, believe me. Members of the u. S. House met recently about combatting the Opioid Epidemic. They also shared their own stories in dealing with opioids and other drugs. Subcommittee will come to order and for an opening statement. In the midst of a fierce battle against an epidemic by opioids. This crisis has touched every corner of american society. Whielt new england and the regions represent states hardest hit by the epidemic. Health officials from the south and reaching across the Mountain West all reported growing over dose deaths in those counties. The latest deaths is astounding. 91 americans died every day from an over dose. Now more than ever we must come together and strengthen our commitment to fight this malady. I expect todays member state will bring to the forefront key insigh
Force for the 115th congress. I want to thank my cochair, annie kuster. Force for the 115th congress. We are proud of the work that we have done. I think we are proud this is the most rigorously Bipartisan Group in the u. S. House of representatives and we are looking forward to a year of joined a make more progress on an issue that is of great concern to all of us. Just a recap of last year briefly. Last year, the comprehensive addiction and recovery act was passed by the house and the senate and passed into law. And it provided stakeholders resources to combat the heroine and Opioid Epidemic. We passed an act at the end of 114th congress that added an additional 100 billion of funding to combat this epidemic. In both of these were college in no small measure because of the bipartisan work done by this task force. The house rolled out in the course of one week 18 bills that really became the foundation and much of the detail of what was ultimately passed into law. There is still a lot
Force for the 115th congress. I want to thank my cochair, annie kuster. Force for the 115th congress. We are proud of the work that we have done. I think we are proud this is the most rigorously Bipartisan Group in the u. S. House of representatives and we are looking forward to a year of joined a make more progress on an issue that is of great concern to all of us. Just a recap of last year briefly. Last year, the comprehensive addiction and recovery act was passed by the house and the senate and passed into law. And it provided stakeholders resources to combat the heroine and Opioid Epidemic. We passed an act at the end of 114th congress that added an additional 100 billion of funding to combat this epidemic. In both of these were college in no small measure because of the bipartisan work done by this task force. The house rolled out in the course of one week 18 bills that really became the foundation and much of the detail of what was ultimately passed into law. There is still a lot
Were in the middle of whats called a heightened earthquake alert. True. It means the odds of a massive earthquake hitting us in the next day or two are as high as 1 in 1 in 100. Or it could be 1 in 100 million. Theyve been telling us for years you cant predict an earthquake, now theres an alert all of a sudden. Most of us ignore this stuff but some people are taking it seriously. In San Bernardino they closed city hall for the next two days because of this earthquake [ laughter ] chose city hall. That annoys me. I dont live there but you dont see businesses that have to turn a profit closing because of an earthquake alert. You dont see color me mine closing shop. They have a lot of stuff that would break in an earthquake. [ cheers and applause ] city hall, theyre like, to hell with it, come back wednesday. Meanwhile, we have a lot to live an official state fabric. And that fabric is any decembers . Guesses . Our official state fabric is denim. Governor jerry brown signed a bill making