Before mr. Connolly and i give Opening Statements, i want to thank everyone. Our guests, panelists, those in the audience, members and staff and everyone for how accommodating you were this morning. We had an unforeseen contingency that arose in our normal hearing room. Thank you for being so understanding. Over the past two decades, illicit drug use emerged as a Public Health and safety crisis with overdoses becoming the leading kauj of injury or death in the United States. Opioids specifically heroin and prescription pain relievers are the cause of most Overdose Deaths in the United States with a death rate more than doubling since the year 2000. In south carolina, which is where im from, at least 95 people die from heroin in 2015 which is almost twice as many as the Previous Year and more than 5660 died from the abuse of prescription opioids over the same period of time. 0 died from prescription opioids over the same period of time. The epidemic is growing and lives are at stake, li
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 audience, the members and staff and everyone for how accommodating you were this morning. We had an unforeseen contingency that arose in our normal room. So thank you for understanding. Over the past two decades, elicit drug use has emerged as a Public Safety cries wis overdoses becoming crises with overdoses becoming the leading cause of injury or death in the United States. Opioids and specifically
Supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim kim not present supervisor mar supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener not present and supervisor yee not present madam president a we have quorum were to excuse commissioner yee and supervisor wiener seconded by supervisor cowen colleagues without objection, without objection supervisor yee and supervisor wiener will be excused new id like to turn it over to commissioner president loftus welcome to the board chambers. Thank you. Good evening, everyone and welcome to to scombroint meeting the Police Commission and the board sergeant, next item. Commissioner president loftus commissioner Vice President turman is excuse commissioner marshall is excused commissioner nakajos commissioner nakajo and commissioner dejesus commissioner wong excused we have quorum. Thank you sergeant and ladies and gentlemen, just for clarity we will have general Public Comment at this time and we will then go into our hearing specifically on the nu
Kim not present supervisor mar supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener not present and supervisor yee not present madam president a we have quorum were to excuse commissioner yee and supervisor wiener seconded by supervisor cowen colleagues without objection, without objection supervisor yee and supervisor wiener will be excused new id like to turn it over to commissioner president loftus welcome to the board chambers. Thank you. Good evening, everyone and welcome to to scombroint meeting the Police Commission and the board sergeant, next item. Commissioner president loftus commissioner Vice President turman is excuse commissioner marshall is excused commissioner nakajos commissioner nakajo and commissioner dejesus commissioner wong excused we have quorum. Thank you sergeant and ladies and gentlemen, just for clarity we will have general Public Comment at this time and we will then go into our hearing specifically on the number of reports including the blooper report and ot