The Senate Committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. Todays hearing is about the Opioid Crisis and what the federal government is doing about it. Senator murray will each have an Opening Statements and then the witnesses and after the witnesss testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. The senate has inefficiently scheduled three votes starting now and all of us would like to hear the witnesses testimony so well figgiure out what to do about that. The Opioid Crisis is tearing our communities apart. Tearing families apart and posing an enormous challienge t health care providers. The amount of opioids prescribed in 2015 was enough for every american to be medicated around the clock for three weeks. According to the centers for Disease Control and prevention. In 2016 there were over 7. 6 million opioid preskripgcriptior pain in tennessee. That means for every 1,000 persons. In march researchers published a study that found nearly 1 in
The Senate Committee on health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. Todays hearing is about the Opioid Crisis and what the federal government is doing about it. Senator murray will each have an Opening Statements and then the witnesses and after the witnesss testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. The senate has inefficiently scheduled three votes starting now and all of us would like to hear the witnesses testimony so well figgiure out what to do about that. The Opioid Crisis is tearing our communities apart. Tearing families apart and posing an enormous challienge t health care providers. The amount of opioids prescribed in 2015 was enough for every american to be medicated around the clock for three weeks. According to the centers for Disease Control and prevention. In 2016 there were over 7. 6 million opioid preskripgcriptior pain in tennessee. That means for every 1,000 persons. In march researchers published a study that found nearly 1 in
Water just gushing down the road, flooding some homes and some businesses. Water logging some cars, some 2 million gallons of water spilling out into the road. Thats a 68yearold pipe that the crews will come back in a few months to do a permanent fix on that. For now, they have got that fix. Were still waiting on the road repair to happen this morning. So traffic still a little tricky in this area. First 4 traffic Melissa Molett trafficking it for us. Heres whats closed, southbound georgia shut down between shorefield and arcola avenue. All traffic using the northbound lanes. If you want to avoid this altogether, best thing to do is to take kemp mill or veers mill. 95 south between dumfries and quantico still have a three mile back up. Take a look at this. 11 Miles Per Hour from road work that just cleared. Overall, Prince Georges County looking pretty good and 95 maryland at powder mill road no major problems there at this point. Travel times and more on this problem on wheaton. So fa
Water just gushing down the road, flooding some homes and some businesses. Water logging some cars, some 2 million gallons of water spilling out into the road. Thats a 68yearold pipe that the crews will come back in a few months to do a permanent fix on that. For now, they have got that fix. Were still waiting on the road repair to happen this morning. So traffic still a little tricky in this area. First 4 traffic Melissa Molett trafficking it for us. Heres whats closed, southbound georgia shut down between shorefield and arcola avenue. All traffic using the northbound lanes. If you want to avoid this altogether, best thing to do is to take kemp mill or veers mill. 95 south between dumfries and quantico still have a three mile back up. Take a look at this. 11 Miles Per Hour from road work that just cleared. Overall, Prince Georges County looking pretty good and 95 maryland at powder mill road no major problems there at this point. Travel times and more on this problem on wheaton. So fa
Water just gushing down the road, flooding some homes and some businesses. Water logging some cars, some 2 million gallons of water spilling out into the road. Thats a 68yearold pipe that the crews will come back in a few months to do a permanent fix on that. For now, they have got that fix. Were still waiting on the road repair to happen this morning. So traffic still a little tricky in this area. First 4 traffic Melissa Molett trafficking it for us. Heres whats closed, southbound georgia shut down between shorefield and arcola avenue. All traffic using the northbound lanes. If you want to avoid this altogether, best thing to do is to take kemp mill or veers mill. 95 south between dumfries and quantico still have a three mile back up. Take a look at this. 11 Miles Per Hour from road work that just cleared. Overall, Prince Georges County looking pretty good and 95 maryland at powder mill road no major problems there at this point. Travel times and more on this problem on wheaton. So fa