CSPAN3 Federal Officials Testify On Fentanyl Addiction March 25, 2017
Crisis. Around two decades ago, it started with the overprescribing of opioid drugs and shifted more to heroin. Today, the subcommittee examines the next wave of the Opioid Crisis and even more dangerous threat on our streets, fentanyl. Fentanyl is made in the lab and for many years it has been a powerful Pain Medicine used by patients with cancer or for those with extreme pain. I remember when i was injured in iraq a few years ago, Battlefield Medicine meant in recovery, they gave me lots of fentanyl patches. I know what its like to have the reaction to that. Its 50 times more potent than her...