Pensions committee. This is part of a series of hearings the committee is holding on the epidemic. Senate committee on health, education, labor, and pensions will please come to order. Today, we turn our attention again to the Opioid Crisis. The nations number one Public Health challenge. Our witness today is sam quinones, the author of dreamland, a true tale of americas opiate epidemic. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, then ill introduce the witness. Then well hear from mr. Quinones, and then senators will each have five minutes of questions. Since hes our only witness, i have suggested to him if he wants to take a little more than five minutes to say whatever he has to say, we would welcome that. But there will be plenty of conversation back and forth with members of the committee. Member quinones, it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearings. But this is an unusual topic, one you quote Washington State Research Professor Gary Franklin as calling th
Its a crisis. It doesnt discriminate. Its in every corner of my state. Earlier this month a Police Officer named chris green in east liverpool, ohio, had a near fatal fentanyl overdose following a routine traffic stop. He went up to a car and noticed there was white powder spread around the car. He put on his mask and gloves, arrested some individuals, went back to the police station, and noticed that on his shirt there was some powder. He reached up like this and brushed the powder off his shirt. This guy is 63, 225 pounds, big man. And he fell to the floor unconscious and overdosed. They administered narcan immediately but it wasnt enough. They had to rush him to the hospital, where two more narcan doses were administered. And luckily his life was saved. His police chief said he would have died he had been alone. His police chief said, what if he had gone home with that powder on his shirt and hugged his kid . Thats just an example of what were facing. Its an obvious its obviously de
Individual, went back to the Police Station and noticed on his shirt was some powder. He brushed the powder off the shirt, he is 6 foot 3, 225 pounds am a big man, he fell to the floor unconscious from overdose. They administered antidote immediately but it wasnt enough, rushed him to the hospital where two more doses were administered and luckily his life was saved. He would have died had he been alone. What if he had gone home with that power on his shirt and hugged his kid . That is just an example of what we are facing. Obviously a devastating to our communities and families but also creating quite a danger for Law Enforcement and First Responders. Sentinel is 35 to 50 times more powerful than heroin, a lethal dose to of 20 mg, we were able to show a tiny amount of fenton all can be deadly and we know about other synthetic drugs, this is getting worse as i said, the number of overdoses and deaths have increased dramatically, the director of National Intelligence included synthetic
But in terms of who was seen to have a Good Campaign, and who wasnt having a Good Campaign . I think this is something that doesnt necessarilyjust come down to the campaign. I personally Supportjeremy Corbyn because this is a process, this is a great, and what he represents is part of this process. It is a shift from this, kind of, establishment politics to something which is more for the community, the bottom, the people. Who here thinks brexit wont actually happen now . I have no idea. I think it will. Just a softer version than what she wanted. It is this word that hangs there, brexit, what does it mean . You know . We dont know what it means yet. When it happens we will have a list of things that our policies and things that are going to happen. Maybe there should be a vote, then. If we all turn against it all of us in this room say, no, thats going to affect my mum, the children, thats going to affect the health service. We cant have that happen to our country. I think that britai
But in terms of who was seen to have a Good Campaign, and who wasnt having a Good Campaign . I think this is something that doesnt necessarilyjust come down to the campaign. I personally Supportjeremy Corbyn because this is a process, this is a great, and what he represents is part of this process. It is a shift from this, kind of, establishment politics to something which is more for the community, the bottom, the people. Who here thinks brexit wont actually happen now . I have no idea. I think it will. Just a softer version than what she wanted. It is this word that hangs there, brexit, what does it mean . You know . We dont know what it means yet. When it happens we will have a list of things that our policies and things that are going to happen. Maybe there should be a vote, then. If we all turn against it all of us in this room say, no, thats going to affect my mum, the children, thats going to affect the health service. We cant have that happen to our country. I think that britai