Epidemic, hosted by the oxford house, this is about an hour and 15 minutes. Back in 1971, this postage stamp came out. This is a path we have been down before. The whole question about drug abuse and issues that resolve around opioids. Today were going through the Opioid Crisis, facts and experiences, but what we need to remember, one of the keys to remember is that in the midst of this Opioid Crisis, in the midst of the numbers of individuals who are dying as a direct result of their use of opioids, we have to keep in mind that this still represents a comparative drop in the bucket. 50,000 lives lost last year due to opioids, no small number. However, we have to compare that to the 80,000 lives lost due to alcohol and the 500,000 lives lost due to cigarette smoking. Remember, the number one leading cause of death in people with addictive disease and recovery is smoking related illness. So the major issue for us to deal with remains tobacco. The second most significant issue for us to
The forum is now adjourn. I am a democrat and i am going to do x, but then there are people who voted for donald trump in the district. Right wing republicans, i am being kind here, you know, who, they dont want to do anything because unless it is perfect whatever perfectness, they are not for it. All of a sudden theyre looking up, they got a bunch of these trump people in a majority of their district. So if donald trump is for it, they are going to have a hard time being against it. And we do not have a president that has any ideology. Left wing, right wing, there is not. So when i tell you to get ready for a ride, this is going to be a ride. All of the rules we have seen, you know, ground rules that sweeney and i had for many years, those are all gone. So get ready. Your seatbelt on, it is going to be a wild ride. [applause] that brings us to the end of todays forum. Thank you mr. Boehner, thank you ladies and gentlemen. The forum is now adjourn. [bell rings] [applause] [crowd chatte
The forum is now adjourn. I am a democrat and i am going to do x, but then there are people who voted for donald trump in the district. Right wing republicans, i am being kind here, you know, who, they dont want to do anything because unless it is perfect whatever perfectness, they are not for it. All of a sudden theyre looking up, they got a bunch of these trump people in a majority of their district. So if donald trump is for it, they are going to have a hard time being against it. And we do not have a president that has any ideology. Left wing, right wing, there is not. So when i tell you to get ready for a ride, this is going to be a ride. All of the rules we have seen, you know, ground rules that sweeney and i had for many years, those are all gone. So get ready. Your seatbelt on, it is going to be a wild ride. [applause] that brings us to the end of todays forum. Thank you mr. Boehner, thank you ladies and gentlemen. The forum is now adjourn. [bell rings] [applause] [crowd chatte
The forum is now adjourn. I am a democrat and i am going to do x, but then there are people who voted for donald trump in the district. Right wing republicans, i am being kind here, you know, who, they dont want to do anything because unless it is perfect whatever perfectness, they are not for it. All of a sudden theyre looking up, they got a bunch of these trump people in a majority of their district. So if donald trump is for it, they are going to have a hard time being against it. And we do not have a president that has any ideology. Left wing, right wing, there is not. So when i tell you to get ready for a ride, this is going to be a ride. All of the rules we have seen, you know, ground rules that sweeney and i had for many years, those are all gone. So get ready. Your seatbelt on, it is going to be a wild ride. [applause] that brings us to the end of todays forum. Thank you mr. Boehner, thank you ladies and gentlemen. The forum is now adjourn. [bell rings] [applause] [crowd chatte
Public policy experts are gathering this afternoon to discuss welfare policy. This event hosted by the Cato Institute in washington dc. They are expected to talk about ways to replace the current welfare system with the universal basic income rate and whether that would work. This is live coverage on cspan2. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation]. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] all right, i want to take an opportunity to welcome you all to the Cato Institutes fai auditorium, my name is Michael Tanner, a senior fellow here at cato and i generally work on issues that have to do with poverty and inequality and other areas of economic policy. Today we are, we got a rare instance here at cato, a double performance if you will. We do a lot of book forums but we have to stick assistant distinguished authors dealing with books both released on the same topic at roughly the same time so its serendipity that we get you both here today. Were talking about the univers