The National Institute on drug abuse. This is two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning. Welcome to this hearing called fentanyl the next wave of the Opioid Crisis. America is in a full on Opioid Crisis. It started with the overprescribing of opioid drugs and then shifted more to heroin. Today, the subcommittee examines the next wave of the Opioid Crisis and fentanyl. Fentanyl is made in the lab and for many years, it has been a powerful pain medication used by patients with cancer or for those with extreme pain. When i was injured in iraq a few years ago, Battlefield Medicine they, and recovery, gave me lots of fentanyl patches. It is 50 times more potent than heroine and 100 times more potent than morphine. Now, fentanyl has been a powerful additive. This is the way the drug dealers increase profits and expand the number of addicts, by juicing the potency of heroine or other street drugs, like people have done with msg in foods. Users often do not know that fentanyl is in the heroine. T
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Chilling effect to pick up the phone and say i heard about your complaint, is there anything that i can do to help . Hopefully youll get more prosecutions and more convictions, you know, if Law Enforcement is brought in faster. Well, it seems to me that the dialogue here today has been much more a focus on helping the victim cope and deal. Thats all incredibly important and to deal with the aftermath and go forward. But i dont hear a lot of dialogue about justice. I dont hear a lot of dialogue about keeping evil perpetrators off the streets so they dont do it to another girl. I have two girls that have graduated from college, too, and i would be livid if some perpetrator who has sexually abused nume rul girls and they decided not to report and that did is still out there seeking to harm other girls and my girl ends up getting harmed. I might be pretty ticked off that guy is allowed to keep perpetrating these crimes. Right. I think one other thing needs to be said here about justice. Pe
Maybe and i have these concerns about going to the university or the college and maybe the counselor, adviser, leaning on them, maybe talking them out of prosecuting because of concern did for the alleged perpetrators career or education. Whatever the case may be, i worry about the fact that an individual who decides initially not to prosecute or not to report to the Law Enforcement, all the forensics is lost, and then several months later, several years later, they decide still within the statute of limitations i want that individual prosecuted so theyre not going to do that to anybody else and then the forensics is not there because it was never reported to Law Enforcement and the people that ended up dealing with it didnt have the capability to even put a case together in the first place. One other critical aspect of mandatory reporting is that theres no way to build up more trust with police than to work with them. You know, we cant we cant fix the problem if theres a problem in th
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