Changing it is fentanyl but as you write about in your book it is mixed with cocaine, metha. So i just want to start off with the big picture what got you into this . What gave you incentive to spend four years of your life and how did you keep going with it . It is fascinating. I had a friend who died in 2010 from fentanyl before people were talking about it and before i knew what it was. It wasnt until four years ago i was a music journalist primarily in doing a report on why so many people were dying at raves. This big electronic music where there is tens of thousands of people partying and somebody would always die and the deaths would be blamed on ecstasy. I have never heard of ecstasy being such a lethal drug and i find out almost all of the ecstasy was adulterated. It had been mixed with chemicals there is no true ecstasy its all these new chemicals i want to find out what these drugs were. It turns out there are hundreds of new drugs i have never heard of the most people have n
Write about in your book is mixed with cocaine and methamphetamines. So start off with the big picture and what got you into this and what gave you the incentive to spend four of your years of your life . I had a friend who died from fentanyl in 2010 before people were talking about it and before i knew what it was. But it wasnt until four years ago as a music journalist i was doing a report on why so many people were dying at raves. With this electronic music with tens of thousands of people partying and somebody would always die in the death would be blamed on ecstasy. I had never heard of ecstasy being such a lethal drug before and i found out that almost all of ecstasy is adulterated. Mixed with other chemicals. Exactly there was almost new one no real true ecstasy its all of these chemicals so i wanted to find out what the drugs were. And it turns out there are hundreds of new drugs that i had never heard of and most people had never heard of that are all synthetic, made in a lab
[gavel] the committee will come to order. Today, our subcommittee is holding an oversight hearing on the federal aviation administration. Im very pleased to be joined by senator jack reed, the subcommittees Ranking Member, senator caputo is here right from the start, and im sure we will be jo im sure aspect of aviation in our country, including the safety of commercial airlines, general aviation, and cargo aircraft. Every day, faas air Traffic Controllers are responsible for more than 44,000 flights and 2. 7 Million Airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. Over the last year, muchneeded attention has been focused on the crashes of lion air flight 610 and Ethiopian Air flight 302. Serious questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the faas regulatory framework. For the sake of the 346 victims and their families, we need to ensure that these accidents are thoroughly investigated, their causes identified, and their solutions implemented. Unfortun
[gavel] the committee will come to order. Today, our subcommittee is holding an oversight hearing on the federal aviation administration. Im very pleased to be joined by senator jack reed, the subcommittees Ranking Member, senator caputo is here right from the start, and im sure we will be joined by others. The faa is a 17 billion agency with 44,000 employees who are responsible for virtually every aspect of aviation in our country, including the safety of commercial airlines, general aviation, and cargo aircraft. Every day, faas air Traffic Controllers are responsible for more than 44,000 flights and 2. 7 Million Airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. Over the last year, muchneeded attention has been focused on the crashes of lion air flight 610 and Ethiopian Air flight 302. Serious questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the faas regulatory framework. For the sake of the 346 victims and their families, we need to ensure that these accid
Today, our subcommittee is holding an oversight hearing on the federa the faa is a 17 billion agency with 44,000 employees who are responsible for virtually every aspect of aviation in our country, including the safety of commercial airlines, general aviation, and cargo aircraft. Every day, faas air Traffic Controllers are responsible for more than 44,000 flights and 2. 7 Million Airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. Over the last year, muchneeded attention has been focused on the crashes of lion air flight 610 and Ethiopian Air flight 302. Serious questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the faas regulatory framework. For the sake of the 346 victims and their families, we need to ensure that these accidents are thoroughly investigated, their causes identified, and their solutions implemented. Unfortunately, at this point, we do not yet have the conclusive results of the two crash investigations and cannot say definitively why these terri