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I want to welcome you all here today to talk about one of the most important issues that affects every state in the country, every community in the country, every neighborhood in the country, and that is the Opioid Epidemic that runs across this wonderful country of ours. This wonderful country of ours. I am charlie baker, the governor of massachusetts and vice chair of the ngas health and Human Services committee and i am especially pleased to be joined today by governor roy cooper from North Carolina, who i served with on the president s commission on opioid addiction, and where is our host,...

Who took part in our 2017 studentcam documentary competition. And studentcam 2018 starts in september with the theme the tunisi tunisi constitution you. Were asking students create a video of why the constitution is important. Now a House Oversight hearing on a bill to reauthorize the office of National Drug control policy. This is almost two hours. The committee on government oversieft and reform will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to call a recess at any time. Before we get to Opening Statements, i want to thank everyone. Our guests, our panelists, those in the aud...

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...

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...

Higgins who recently wrote about donald trump and his overseas investments. That is it for today. See you tomorrow. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] next, attorney general Loretta Lynch testifies before a House Committee about the Justice Departments 2017 budget request. Then, live at noon, republican president ial candidate john kasich holds a town hall meeting in nashville, tennessee. Campaign 2016 is take you on the road to the whi...