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Pensions committee. This is part of a series of hearings the committee is holding on the epidemic. Senate committee on health, education, labor, and pensions will please come to order. Today, we turn our attention again to the Opioid Crisis. The nations number one Public Health challenge. Our witness today is sam quinones, the author of dreamland, a true tale of americas opiate epidemic. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, then ill introduce the witness. Then well hear from mr. Quinones, and then senators will each have five minutes of questions. Since hes our only witnes...

The committee will please come to order. We turn our attention to the opiate crisis. The nations number one Public Health challenge. Our witnesses sam, the author dream and, true to of americas opiate epidemic. Senator moran i will have an opening statement. Though will hear from our witness. Ive suggested if he wants to take more than five minutes to say what he has to say we would welcome that. Theres plenty of conversation back and forth it is unusual to have a single witness utter hearing. This is an unusual topic. One you quote gary franken is the worst madman epidemic in history. The cha...

The Senate Committee on Health Education labor and Pensions Committee will come to order. Debbie talk about the Opioid Crisis the number one Public Health changes good out witness todays sam quinones. The author of dreamland, a true tale of americas Opioid Epidemic. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then i will introduce the witness. Then we will hear from mr. Sam quinones and senators will each have five minutes of questions. This is the only witness i suggest if you want to take more than five minutes, to say whatever he has to say, we welcome that but there will b...

On the Opioid Epidemic and testified on his research and what he has learned in the course of writing his book. This is two hours. , our witness is sam quinones author of dreamland, a true story of americas Opioid Epidemic. Senators will each have five minutes of questions. Since he is our only witness, if he wants to take more than five minutes to say what he wants to say, we would welcome that. , it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearings and this is an unusual topic, one you say the Washington Post is going the worst manmade epidemic in history. The challenge this crisis present...

The Senate Committee on Health Education and pensions will come to order. Today we are looking at effect on children and infants. We have a vote i believe at 11 30 today so we should i believe give us time to have a full discussion with our witnesses. Before we turn to todays focus i wanted to say that later today senator murray and i and senators young will introduce legislation to help address the Opioid Crisis. Dr. Collins, head of the National Institute of health predicted that nonaddictive pain killer can be introduced. Our bill would give more flexibility to conduct research. The Committ...