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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171026:17:16:00

Soonist i can get you in is in three weeks. we would never say to somebody with a heart attack, i m sorry, if you re not dead in three weeks, come back then. we have to get people into treatment. unless we address the demand for drugs, that s going to continue to fuel the supply. congressman welch, again, we are going to hear from president trump at the top of the hour, 2:00 eastern, from the white house. is this a crisis that can be solved by not allocated new funds? can we simply shift money around and expect it to have some sort of measurable impact on the opoid fight in this country? no, absolutely not. i mean, the president is going to make the statement a concern. really, we need a plan of action. and he s disregarding unfortunately some really solid recommendations of his own commission. one, we need to expand treatment. you re not going to get people better without the expansion of treatment. and the heartache in local communities and the burden on ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171026:17:49:00

Hold people accountable. reporter: meanwhile, kids like andrew are left to pick up the pieces. kind of traumatized me a little. i wish i never would have had to go through that. reporter: the naacp has asked the department of justice to investigate these cases of abuse and state senators are calling for more oversight in these juvenile facilities, craig. all right, tammy litner there for us in miami, tammy, thank you for that. president trump expected to declare the opoid crisis a public health emergency just minutes from now. top of the hour, when it happen, we will bring it to you live. our own dr. natalie azar, she s here, she s going to sit down with us to talk about how this fight, how much it s going to cost. and there s a big difference between ordinary. and the best. which egg tastes more farm-fresh and delicious? only eggland s best. which egg has 6 times more vitamin d, 10 times more vitamin e, and 25% less saturated fat? ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171026:17:55:00

The tide of new people becoming addicted. i think dr. wyn was talking about the supply and demand aspect of it and that really, honestly, craig, is on health care professionals, who were trained in a generation of docs who thought opioids were not that all addictive and were good to treat chronic pain. here we are recognizing that, yes, there is a small percentage of patients who require opioids but the majority of people shouldn t be on it. i want to ask you about narcan. here s the headline from npr. narcan opioid overdose spray is now stocked by all walgreens pharmacies. it reverses the effects of opioid overdoses. is there a danger to this becoming available? ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171026:17:10:00

Ineffective until this point? well, in fact, the pain is at the local level, you know, our governor, then governor, shumlin, addressed he dedicated his entire state of the state address in 2014 to the opoid addiction problem. i remember my colleagues in the house saying, peter, why is the governor doing it, it s bad publicity. but then they acknowledged that the problem he was discussing was real in their own communities as well. so the response and the pain have come from the local level and you re seeing us all here experience the pain that s so powerful in our own communities and families that we know. while i have you, i do want to ask you about the washington post investigation about that bill that you co-sponsored. the allegation basically being that the bill was passed over objections from the drug enforcement agency. and it s led to what s called a pill dumping in rural areas, especially these drug suppliers are pumping millions of opioids, ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170810:19:45:00

Diplomatic language. than the secretary of defense can afford to do. i just again, i think we re maybe making more out of this than we need to. okay. gentlemen, thank you both so much. we have some news from president trump. moments ago declaring the opoid epidemic in this country a national emergency. we ll talk to our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta on this, what this means for so many people desperately in need of help, next. ....

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