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