Polio. She would encourage Franklin Roosevelt to continue with his political ambitions. Ladies from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama tonight at like 9 00 eastern, live on cspan. We will start the evening with a conversation from a story of new Richard Norton smith and the first ladies and their contributions to the nation live at 8 00. The next watch it in looks at Kevin Kuhlman how the Health Care Laws impacting small businesses. Then, samesex marriage and the goals of getting it legalized in more states. Then we talk about the currency known as the going which recently experienced problems from cyber attacks. Plus your phone calls and tweets all on washington journal, ive at 7 00 eastern on cspan. Next, former congressman Patrick Kennedy looks at societys role in fostering addition addiction and how the Health Care Laws might help. He spoke in an event moderated by dr. Travis stork who is an emergency room doctor and cohost of the tv show the doctors. It is 45 minutes. , please we
Tell us why this matters to you individually. Thank you. Thank you to the Clinton Foundation and all of the sponsors. About a year ago, after leaving congress i went to get a new doctor where i was living in southeast jersey. I have gotten a lot of publicity locally in the Atlantic City press because i married a jersey girl and they made a big deal i was in the area. I was recovering and doing all this work in Mental Health and addiction. I go to my new physician and im also asthmatic. A go to the doctor and he asked me, does my height, weight, blood pressure, asks me about my lung capacity and all the rest. Before the recent scandal with my colleague trey radel, i was that. Id been arrested for driving under the influence was splashed over the National Press for being an addict and i went to treatment and the like. I him pretty well recognized if you know anything about this as the face of someone in recovery. The shocking thing was, like most of my physicians in the past, i go and th
Narcotics control examining heroin and Prescription Drug abuse. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Come to order, i would like to welcome our distinguished witnesses, and they will be introduced shortly. Recent recently, the media has chronicles a resurgence of heroin abuse in the United States and actually more heroin being moved into the country. According to a 2012 national survey, 666,000 americans reported using heroin during the previous year. That number has steadily grown over the past several years. So this begs the question why are more people using heroin and this is the Senate Caucus on International Drug control, but the reason to control it is to keep it out of our country and to do those things which prevent opiate use, not to enable it, but one answer according to the experts may be the countrys addiction and use of prescription pain medications, a report released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health services that people who use prescript n prescription thats an amazin
InterNational Drug control, but the reason to control it is to keep it out of our country and to do those things which prevent opiate use, not to enable it, but one answer according to the experts may be the countrys addiction and use of prescription pain medications, a report released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health services that people who use prescript n prescription thats an amazing thing to me. Furthermore, four out of every five heroin abusers in much the same way as heroin, the lesson here is that rather than thinking of two separate addictions, prescription pain medications, and heroin, we should realize that were facing a much larger opiate addiction epidemic that includes both, so the strategy to treat the number of overdoses, but the first and most important strategy is to prevent drug abuse before it starts and this means educating communities and youths about the dangers. Now some communities already do this through the federal Drug Free Communities Program prescr
Your written testimony says that the commission continues to reiterate its longstanding bipartisan call for enactment of a strong federal Data Security and breach notification law. Is that still the position of the commissioner . Absolutely. Mr. Mass mastria, do you want to comment . Very taken a look at the possible legislation, for instance, that senator mccain made reference to . I am generally familiar with it but as a selfregulatory body, we do not weigh in on the legislation. We leave that to our founding trade associations to do that. Are you done . Im going to try to finish, if not, ill be right back. Mr. Mastria, the association has requires its members to publish the names of parties that do Data Collection for on or for their website. Its a link to their privacy disclosures. Is that correct . You do you require that of your members . We do require notice and transparency. Do you require your members to publish the names of the parties that do Data Collection on their website