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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 t...

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 th...

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 Sena...

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Good afternoon, welcome to the monday, october 22nd, 2012 Small Business commission meeting. The time is now 2 08 p. M. And the meeting is being called to order. At this time if you could please turnoff all your cell phones and electronic devices. Theres a signup sheet at the front table if youd like to be on our mailing list and speaker cards are also available. Item 1 is roll call. Commissioner adams . Here. Commissioner obrien . Present. Commissioner dooley . Here. Commissioner dwight . Here. Commissioner ortizcartagena . Mr. President , we have a quorum. Great. Next item. Item 2 is present...