Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome you to todays judiciary. On encryption excuse me thats not the right one. Tackling the Opioid Crisis a whole government approach and ill go ahead and start with Opening Statements from the Ranking Member and myself and i believe senator durbin has opening remarks and will die then to eyewitness testimony as well. Since 1999 more than 700,000 people have died from a Drug Overdose in the United States. Increased opioid addiction and a production of deadly synthetic opioids have exasperated american staggering overdosed death rate. In 2017, more than 70000 people died from Drug Overdoses making it the leading cause of injury related death in the United States. Of those, 60 involve prescription opioids and illicit opioid such as fentanyl. Americans fared no better against Opioid Epidemic in 2018 when more than 10 Million People aged 12 or older of abused opioid in 2 Million People suffered from an opioid use disorder and on average 130 americ
Impeachment against. The people of kabul face the threat of violence every day a far greater threat to health looks in the polluted air now the government is taking steps to tackle. Germanys chancellor prepares to visit the size of one of historys most shocking crimes Angela Merkel is making her 1st visit to the auschwitz. Shes bringing a large donation to help conserve the science and a lot of future generations about the atrocities of the nazis committed. Welcome to the Program France has been paralyzed by one of its biggest nationwide strikes in decades many join mass protests across the country public transport schools hospitals have been seriously just. Up to Public Sector workers are protesting against president amount of calls plans to reform the Pension System each union is deciding how long to keep its members out on strike but further protests are expected on friday and of the days ahead. 3 very loud very angry and united in their opposition to the policies of french presiden
Fortt and leslie picker. Interesting morning as we await the fed decision this afternoon. Tim cook speaking with japans nikkei while visiting some apple stores and ink suppliers defending the companys job creation in the u. S. And complaints the company has faced over competition cook saying, quote, a monopoly by itself isnt bad if its not abused the question for those companies is do they abuse it. That is for regulators to decide, not for me to decide joining us to talk about this and a lot more, managing partner susan line and ciscos chairman emeritus, john chambers. Good morning, guys. Good morning. How you doing good. Lets try to put these comments in some context. Why do you think theyre happening now out of cook, at least . Well, i think theyre happening because theres a general concern over privacy and over moves to increase privacy at both facebook and apple products but i think for him, this was an interesting moment because its the first time hes really tried to defend a mon
And how it relates to the prohibition and now they legalization of cannabis and how that impacts consumer access to the substance. Onave been doing research and cannabis legalization for the last two decades. You get to join us now on our tour of the last 100 years of drug policy. Remember yesterday, we were talking about the impact of culture and science on our approach to medicine in anceptualizing what is acceptable substance for medical consumption and what marks those substances that are different from addison. Today, we are going to try to see how those very ideas impact the laws that govern our access to the substances. We are going to start just over a century ago with the pure foods and drug act of 1906. This is something that impacts us into the present and really helped to control our access to a whole range of substances. Law itself is focused on Consumer Protection. We do not want the American Public to have access to substances that could potentially be dangerous. It coul
Watching at home, is a course focused on business in society here at Colorado College and this class in particular were looking at the making of the u. S. Drug war and in particular how it relates to the prediction and now the legalization of cannabis and how that impacts consumer access to this particular sub stan. Ive been doing research either no graphically and historically on the drug war and for the last two decades so you get to join us today on our tour of the last 100 years of drug policy. We were talking about the impact ourulture and science in approaches to medicine, and what is a sub acceptable substance and what marks those substances that are different from medicine. Today, we are going to try to see how those ideas impact the laws that govern access to these substances. We are going to start over a century ago with the food and drug act of 1906. It impacts us into the present and helps control our access to a whole range of substances. The law itself is focused on consu