Welcome to an Expert Panel Discussion hosted by the criminal law and procedure Practice Group entitled opioids, the crisis in 2022 and beyond. My name is mike. I am the former United States attorney for the Southern District of mississippi where i witnessed firsthand this worsening crisis and the effect it had on our communities. Unfortunately, this topic is more relevant today than even just a few years ago. The u. S. Apartment of health and Human Services declared that the nation has myths of an unprecedented Opioid Epidemic with Drug Overdose deaths having quadrupled since 1999. According to the cdc, there were an estimated 107,000 Drug Overdose deaths in the United States in 2021 with approximately 75 of those deaths or 80,000 coming just from opioids. That is a rate of almost 220 people dying each and every day from opioids. Today, we have an incredible panel of experts who have looked at this issue in depth to discuss what has happened, how we got to where we are today, and what
Welcome to an Expert Panel Discussion hosted by the criminal law and procedure Practice Group entitled opioids, the crisis in 2022 and beyond. My name is mike. I am the former United States attorney for the Southern District of mississippi where i witnessed firsthand this worsening crisis and the effect it had on our communities. Unfortunately, this topic is more relevant today than even just a few years ago. The u. S. Apartment of health and Human Services declared that the nation has myths of an unprecedented Opioid Epidemic with Drug Overdose deaths having quadrupled since 1999. According to the cdc, there were an estimated 107,000 Drug Overdose deaths in the United States in 2021 with approximately 75 of those deaths or 80,000 coming just from opioids. That is a rate of almost 220 people dying each and every day from opioids. Today, we have an incredible panel of experts who have looked at this issue in depth to discuss what has happened, how we got to where we are today, and what
Work on this task force to protect access to a womans right to choose Reproductive Health care. In the wake of the Supreme Courts extreme decision of wiping out a 50 year constitutional president of roe v wade. You know, i created this task force by executive order last month and to ensure that every part of the federal government does its part at this critical moment where Womens Health and lives are on the line. Miss chaos and uncertainty unleashed by this decision. Emergency medical care being denied to women experiencing miss characters. Doctors uncertain about what they can do to provide for the patients. Pharmacists unsure whether they can fill prescriptions that theyve always filled before. A tragic case of rape survivors, including a 10 Year Old Girl forced to travel to another state for care. You know, wiping out the right to choose on whether you have incest or having a rape or i mean it just this is just extreme, you know, even the life of the mother is in question in some c
President harris for meeting todays meeting and thanks to you, all of you, especially health and Human Services secretary researcher and director of the gender policy council, jan klein for co chairing this task force, an attorney general, garland, Homeland Security secretary, mayorkas and Veterans Affairs secretary mcdonough for your work on this task force to protect access to a womans right to choose Reproductive Health care. In the wake of the Supreme Courts extreme decision of wiping out a 50 year constitutional president of roe v wade. You know, i created this task force by executive order last month and to ensure that every part of the federal government does its part at this critical moment where Womens Health and lives are on the line. Miss chaos and uncertainty unleashed by this decision. Emergency medical care being denied to women experiencing miss characters. Doctors uncertain about what they can do to provide for the patients. Pharmacists unsure whether they can fill pres
Unprecedented Opioid Epidemic with Drug Overdose deaths having quadrupled since 1999. According to the cdc, there were an estimated 107,000 Drug Overdose deaths in the United States in 2021 with approximately 75 of those deaths or 80,000 coming just from opioids. That is a rate of almost 220 people dying each and every day from opioids. Today, we have an incredible panel of experts who have looked at this issue in depth to discuss what has happened, how we got to where we are today, and what we can do hopefully to dig ourselves out of this crisis so let me introduce our panel first. We have the Senior Legal Research fellow at the heritage foundation. He writes on a variety of legal issues including policies. He has had numerous positions in the federal government, among them being at the u. S. Department of justice and counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee under chairman senator orrin hatch. He is serving as a senior fellow at the Shaver Center for Health Policy and economics at th