Its a crisis. It doesnt discriminate. Its in every corner of my state. Earlier this month a Police Officer named chris green in east liverpool, ohio, had a near fatal fentanyl overdose following a routine traffic stop. He went up to a car and noticed there was white powder spread around the car. He put on his mask and gloves, arrested some individuals, went back to the police station, and noticed that on his shirt there was some powder. He reached up like this and brushed the powder off his shirt. This guy is 63, 225 pounds, big man. And he fell to the floor unconscious and overdosed. They administered narcan immediately but it wasnt enough. They had to rush him to the hospital, where two more narcan doses were administered. And luckily his life was saved. His police chief said he would have died he had been alone. His police chief said, what if he had gone home with that powder on his shirt and hugged his kid . Thats just an example of what were facing. Its an obvious its obviously de
Individual, went back to the Police Station and noticed on his shirt was some powder. He brushed the powder off the shirt, he is 6 foot 3, 225 pounds am a big man, he fell to the floor unconscious from overdose. They administered antidote immediately but it wasnt enough, rushed him to the hospital where two more doses were administered and luckily his life was saved. He would have died had he been alone. What if he had gone home with that power on his shirt and hugged his kid . That is just an example of what we are facing. Obviously a devastating to our communities and families but also creating quite a danger for Law Enforcement and First Responders. Sentinel is 35 to 50 times more powerful than heroin, a lethal dose to of 20 mg, we were able to show a tiny amount of fenton all can be deadly and we know about other synthetic drugs, this is getting worse as i said, the number of overdoses and deaths have increased dramatically, the director of National Intelligence included synthetic
Medical professionals who treat addiction, lawmakers from hard hit areas, we want to in just a little bit. Well open our phone lines and you how the Opioid Epidemic is affecting you personally, first, part of our conversation from the author of he book dream land, the true tale of americas opiate epidemic. I want to ask you about something you wrote on your blog. Days g about heroin these is another way of writing about america. Who we are and what weve become. That. Ou explain sure. I began, it began to occur to me as i began to write. In the middle of this project, and i began to wonder this problem was affecting appalachian, but why it was affecting charlotte and salt lake and places that did very well in the last 20 to 30 years, not rustbelt areas at all. Common denominator . I began to understand that the denominator was our own isolation and that you were really writing about much bigger than simply Drug Trafficking. My background is as a crime thought i was writing a book about
Last year for people under the age of 50 is Drug Overdose. That is according to data by Public Health agencies compile over time. That is more than the highest car crash was 54,000 and 1872. More than a 50,000 who died from agerelated publications in 1995 and more than 39,000 who died from gun violence including homicides, suicides and accidents in 1993. Two hours here on cspan, we want to take an in problem, k at the hearing from state officials on the front lines of the opioid medical professionals who treat addiction, lawmakers from hard hit areas, we want to in just a little bit. Well open our phone lines and you how the Opioid Epidemic is affecting you personally, first, part of our conversation from the author of he book dream land, the true tale of americas opiate epidemic. I want to ask you about something you wrote on your blog. Days g about heroin these is another way of writing about america. Who we are and what weve become. That. Ou explain sure. I began, it began to occur
From comedy centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah. cheers and applause trevor welcome to the daily show im trevor noah thank you so much you guys are amazing wow thank you so much for tuning in my guest tonight, executive director of the aclu, Anthony Romero is here, everybody cheers and applause joining us in the studio. Hes here just to check i havent been forcefully the deported yet, but were good. laughter first, with all the people taking to the streets protesting against President Trumps de facto muslim ban, a lot of folks have been asking the question, where are the democrats in all of this, and why arent they saying anything . Well, last night, House Democratic leader nancy pelosi at a rally in front of the Supreme Court helped us understand why. Thank you very much for coming out to is the sound working . The sound working . No. I can hear you. Can you hear us . Can you hear now . No, that doesnt do any good. Does this work bette