Upi crisis and a crisis it is. Every day, more than 130 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids. Addiction to and opioids including prescription painkillers and synthetic opioids such as fentanyl is a serious National Crisis that affects Public Health as well as economic welfare. War and is a Mission Warren is a Michigan City with an opioid crisis. Time, heroins overdose went from seven up to 32. A 400 increase. World, theyry care are trying to limit the amount of controlled substances and the overprescribing. We recognize the huge problem. Big pharma introduced oxycodone. Almost 1. 1in 1996 to billion. It correlated with increased abuse. Become aoxycodone had leading drug of abuse in the United States. This was the beginning of the modern opioid crisis. We are suing the opioid companies. We have needed extra help. Purdue pharma is pushing these prescriptions. Early in my career, we were still of the opinion that opioid use dependence or a narcotic dependence was ve
An executive order that would allow low risk prisoners to apply for early parole or be placed in home confinement. This is just under 90 minutes. Gov. Murphy good morning, thank you for coming in early. We will be a little bit snappier in terms of pace because we have folks who will be observing good friday beginning at noon. Im going to be joined by the woman up my right, the commissioner of the department of health, judy person kelly. To my left is the Communicable Disease service officer. To my far left, state Police Superintendent colonel pat callahans. Pat callahan. And then the department of Corrections Commission will commissioner, marcus hicks. We are going earlier, so while we have the overnight numbers, i am not sure judy will tell us how deeply we can dig in. We have at least the top line and we will go from there. Let me get into that immediately. Since yesterday, we have been notified that we have 3621 more residents who have received positive test results, so that puts ou