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Have the right prescribing guidelines all over the country. now we've changed it. now there are limits. i believe we're going to see better results. it's going to take time to begin to see them. >> to the question of emergency funding, though -- >> well, we're spending almost a billion on it right now. and why do we have a rainy day fund? i'll tell you why, because we don't want to be in the middle of a fiscal year and having to start chopping programs. i have that as a reserve. at money, that $2 billion is gone in the snap of a finger. then i've got to go back and cut the schools in the middl...

Little and moving all the way up through school maybe at the university level. so we're doing the drug enforcement, we're doing the rehab, we're doing all these things. we're reducing the amount of prescriptions, but at the end of the day, we have a program called start talking, and i have invited the schools to participate. i'm going to be even more aggressive on getting them to participate because we have to tell the young people do not do this. we lost a generation of people because of the addiction to opiates because doctors didn't have the right prescribing guidelines all over the country...