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Deaths, what steps has the dea taking to support the establishment of opcs as a harm reduction strategy in communities across the united states? >> so thank you for that question. we have three top priorities at dea right now. the first is to defeat the two cartels we believe are responsible for the unprecedented and catastrophic loss of life. the second is to raise public awareness and the third is to do everything we can to expand access to treatment so that every american who needs treatment can have it. we are -- there's no question at this moment in time that everything -- this is a whole...

So, cutting the access to that, you're not saying don't focus on -- >> what i'm saying is we have to focus on people who are experimenting with drugs as well, both sides, right? so, one of the thing is dark san -- american, naloxone. this has to be part of a greater harm reduction strategy. and what can we do when people are experimenting. this saves lives in the way that we had the height of the hiv epidemic, right, from 1981 to 1990, what's happening right now is blowing that out of the water. more people are dying in one year and then all of those years combined. and so, in the ways in whic...

So, cutting the access to that, you're not saying don't focus on -- >> what i'm saying is we have to focus on people who are experimenting with drugs as well, both sides, right? so, one of the thing is narcan, naloxone. this has to be part of a greater harm reduction strategy. and what can we do when people are experimenting? this saves lives. in the way that we had the height of the hiv epidemic, right, from 1981 to 1990, what's happening right now is blowing that out of the water. more people are dying in one year than all of those years combined. and so, in the ways in which condoms were fr...

Abbott had previously opposed legislation legalizing the test strips, but he cited a stunning 89% increase in fentanyl deaths in Texas the prior year.

This Christmas season, Natalia Rapp, 39, is grateful to her mom and God for over 10 years of sobriety and recovery.