Welcome to an Expert Panel Discussion hosted by the criminal law and procedure Practice Group entitled opioids, the crisis in 2022 and beyond. My name is mike. I am the former United States attorney for the Southern District of mississippi where i witnessed firsthand this worsening crisis and the effect it had on our communities. Unfortunately, this topic is more relevant today than even just a few years ago. The u. S. Apartment of health and Human Services declared that the nation has myths of an unprecedented Opioid Epidemic with Drug Overdose deaths having quadrupled since 1999. According to the cdc, there were an estimated 107,000 Drug Overdose deaths in the United States in 2021 with approximately 75 of those deaths or 80,000 coming just from opioids. That is a rate of almost 220 people dying each and every day from opioids. Today, we have an incredible panel of experts who have looked at this issue in depth to discuss what has happened, how we got to where we are today, and what
Welcome to an Expert Panel Discussion hosted by the criminal law and procedure Practice Group entitled opioids, the crisis in 2022 and beyond. My name is mike. I am the former United States attorney for the Southern District of mississippi where i witnessed firsthand this worsening crisis and the effect it had on our communities. Unfortunately, this topic is more relevant today than even just a few years ago. The u. S. Apartment of health and Human Services declared that the nation has myths of an unprecedented Opioid Epidemic with Drug Overdose deaths having quadrupled since 1999. According to the cdc, there were an estimated 107,000 Drug Overdose deaths in the United States in 2021 with approximately 75 of those deaths or 80,000 coming just from opioids. That is a rate of almost 220 people dying each and every day from opioids. Today, we have an incredible panel of experts who have looked at this issue in depth to discuss what has happened, how we got to where we are today, and what
Unprecedented Opioid Epidemic with Drug Overdose deaths having quadrupled since 1999. According to the cdc, there were an estimated 107,000 Drug Overdose deaths in the United States in 2021 with approximately 75 of those deaths or 80,000 coming just from opioids. That is a rate of almost 220 people dying each and every day from opioids. Today, we have an incredible panel of experts who have looked at this issue in depth to discuss what has happened, how we got to where we are today, and what we can do hopefully to dig ourselves out of this crisis so let me introduce our panel first. We have the Senior Legal Research fellow at the heritage foundation. He writes on a variety of legal issues including policies. He has had numerous positions in the federal government, among them being at the u. S. Department of justice and counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee under chairman senator orrin hatch. He is serving as a senior fellow at the Shaver Center for Health Policy and economics at th
From opioids. That is a rate of almost 220 people dying each and every day from opioids. Today, we have an incredible panel of experts who have looked at this issue in depth to discuss what has happened, how we got to where we are today, and what we can do hopefully to dig ourselves out of this crisis so let me introduce our panel first. We have the Senior Legal Research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He writes on a variety of legal issues including policies. He has had numerous positions in the federal government, among them being at the u. S. Department of justice and counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee under chairman senator orrin hatch. He is serving as a senior fellow at the Shaver Center for Health Policy and economics at the university of southern california. He served as domestic policy advisor in the white house and before that, he was associate director for Health Policy at the office of management and budget and he served on the white houses covid19 task force in t
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