Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council meeting friday, march 17 here in city hall in room 400. I want to welcome our new councilmembers and later up in the agenda we will tell you about themselves and their background. So right now, lets start with the introductions. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council meeting today here at city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at grove van ness and mcallister street via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk street good entrance is provided via a wheelchair lifts. Accessible listening devices are available at our meeting is open captioned. Sign language interpreted. Our agenda are also available in large print and braille. Please, as that for any additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with this room sound system, and to respect everyones ability to focus on the presentation, these, sounds
Him as bizarre as bizarre as that was, that wasnt the salient issue for me, personally. My problem is that he came in, shouted at everybody, and refused to take questions. That was a fundamental violation of the purpose of that room. Its not about questions, its about answers. I have heard sean and a lot of different venues and i think he was very subdued and contrite today, but i have seen a diminishment of that room over the last three months. That the Obama Administration sought to cool it down after robert gibbs was the press secretary, who would make news from the podium with great regularity. I dont think president obama appreciated that. I think that what we have seen is a series of missteps. I think it is entirely appropriate and unbiased to say that the level of information and the quality of information we received during these briefings, is, i believe, not up to the standard of what we believe ought to be in the Briefing Room. I would put this out for mr. Spicer and his staf
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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
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