Visions zero, vision zero and so the messaging was really powerful and they had the street signs all over the place. And i understand that Clear Channel donated a bunch of signs for them to put up or to send these messages. I am hoping that we could, our education piece could be as aggressive as that. And i know that it was just starting with, and i love it to be that way. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner mar . Yeah, i just wanted to thank commissioners kim and yee, and i wanted to remind the body that there is a budget legislative Analyst Report on reducing speed limit and looking at model and other cities and so i will do my best to try to integrate what you have learned and brought back with the budget Analyst Report, which i think that we will having the hearing later in the new year. And i wanted to also say that just remembering now, in austin, unfortunately they were not able to pass a one billion dollar transportation bond. A spread out city, verses a dense city and, we were
The Ebola Response we worked very closely with the hospital and made site visits to make sure they were prepared. We are obligated to ensure that when we hear things like diabetes and cultural competency i think we can work closely with cpmc and a stronger way to ensure that they are culturally competent. I dont see why i cant work with them closely to ensuring them. Also the mso issue in the tenderloin, i think we can solve that. We tried to work very closely with the clinic consortium and there is an mso within that group and that is an example. So there is i think a possibility of that. We also want to work closely to ensure that the new hospital does provide and im talking about the Cathedral Hill or the sand hill that it does have a structural response to medical patients. We believe thats important, thats why it was in the beginning of our process and well continue to work with cpmc to ensure that and well begin our process to work with parties and i think we put a lot of effort
And those seniors are a subject of abuse and theft. I would like to encourage you to move this ordinance to the full board so the seniors are dispose of their medications and keep the land speaker im going to call a couple more cards. Kenny, keith and charles minister, and dede workman and larry. Speaker michael lion for California Alliance for retired americans and great panthers. We strongly urge that you pass this legislation onto the full board of supervisors. Speaking from a senior perspective, medication errors after heart attacks and strokes are the biggest cause of admission to Emergency Rooms throughout the state. This is largely because our medications change often. When we go to the hospital, were offered new medication in addition to the ones we were regularly taking. Those come home with us and clutter up our medicine cabinets. Paradox, another effect of the epidemic of opioids abuse is that for people with chronic pain, its becoming harder for them to be able to get pain
Is a no brainier. Well fair groups and recovery addictions and others have chime have chimed in to support this. Vote yes and approve and send this with full recommendation to the board. Thank you. Speaker thank you. And now im going to call speaker cards starting with maria muni. If you can line up to my left. Im going to call a couple of other names. Jenny, and michael lion, david grant. I dont know if this is michael or michelle. The last names is lion from the great panthers. Starting with mara. Speaker i want to thank breed for your leadership and for considering this policy. I do urge you to support the drug take back legislation. Excessive waste has been proven to impact our environment and were seeing pharmaceuticals reaching alarming levels in the bay including antibodies and antidepressants and anxiety reducers. These are major food source for bay area species. And we can expect to see these chemicals, bio accumulating and top consumers here such as sea lions and sharks and h
Repeatedly, you become depend on them and addiction have followed these curves as theyre shown here. We have a little bit of San Francisco statistics about the deaths and supervisor breed mentioned this earlier. 127 prescription poisoning deaths and out of those, most were op theyre sedatives used in Mental Health. There was one study done on prescription opioids cost. It showed a 55 billion cost to the United States in 2007. Some was work place and some were health care and some was criminal justice. The National Institution of drug abuse asked what was their first a young people use pills as well. This is from the modern of future studies that looks at high school. Kids, basically. And theyre using various prescriptions, vicodin, sedatives, oxy cotton and ritalin. Its not just people on the street addicted, but its young people taking some of these pills. And when theyre asked about where they got the pills, many of them are taking their own leftover medication. So again, you are pre