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Good morning. The Senate Health education labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. Todayerer holding a hearing on our nations growing Mental Health and Substance Use disorder crisis. I will have an Opening Statement following by senator murkowski. Then we will introduce our witnesses. I believe Ranking Member will join us a little later as well. After the witnesses give their testimony, senators will each is have five minute farce for a round of questions. While we werent able to have it open to the public, live video is available on our Committee Website and if you are in need o ....
And chairman gowdy, were honored to be a part of the House Oversight and government reform committees efforts find Meaningful Solutions to the Opioid Epidemic. Thank youall for being here today. It is no secret that were in the throws throws of a crisis thats reached Epic Proportions throughout our country. Baltimore is no exception. In 2016 we average nearly two fatal opioid overdoses in this city per day. This is a problem in desperate need of thoughtful answers. As both an anchor institution and steward of health care for our local communities, hopkins takes this problem very seriously. We see firsthand the devastation that substands care at our sister hospital to the east, the number of opioid Over ....
This is two hours and 10 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. And welcome to hopkins. My name is Redonda Miller and as president of the hospital i have the pleasure of welcoming you all to the institution. As president i have had the immense pleasure and privilege of working with congressman Elijah Cummings on a variety of issues. We are grateful for his steadfast leadership nationally and on behalf of his local constituents here. We are truly lucky to count ourselves among those he excellently represented for more than two decades. Chairman, we are honored to be a part of the government reform committees efforts to find Meaningful Solutions to the Opioid Epidemic. Thank you all for being here today. It is no secret we are in the throws of a crisis that reache ....