And make sure that they get exactly what they need. The chair would like to recognize the gentleman from oregon, mister schrader. Is he available . Not seeing or hearing him. The chair recognizes Mister Kennedy. Mister kennedy available . Not in his chair. Then the chair will recognize thegentleman from New Hampshire , miss custer or five minutes of questions. You need to unmute. You. Thank you very much. Thank you madam chair. I appreciate this hearing and i appreciate the opportunity to address you on this important issue. Here in New Hampshire weve had a dramatic increase. Depression, anxiety, trauma and grief as a result of covid and we are struggling as well with changes to the Economic Impact on our Healthcare Providers particularly Mental Health providers. 83 percent of small and large groups Substance Abuse providers have described what is a Financial Hardship as a result of covid and 48 percent of those providers have had to cancel income generating events while 74 percent hav
Restricting the number of hours a baker could work each week. Watch landmark cases tonight on cspan 3. And any time on cspan. Org. Now a hearing on the impact of the coronavirus on Mental Health. The house energy and commerce subcommittee on health discusses the benefits telehealth has provided americans and the need to continue after the pandemic ends. This is just over four hours 15 minutes. The subcommittee on health will now come to order. Due to covid19, todays hearing obviously is being held remotely. All members and witnesses will participate via Video Conferencing. As part of our hearing, microphones will be set on mute to eliminate background noise. Members and witnesses, youre going to have to unmute your microphone each time you wish to speak. I just say that as a reminder and a little housekeeping issue. Please remember to do that. Documents for the record can be sent to megan mullin at the email address we provided to your staff. All documents will be entered into the reco
Living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the rama tuts community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you. And i should say good morning to everyone as well. Good morning. So at this time, well go to Public Comment on items not on the agenda. Members of the public who wish to provide in person Public Comment on this item. Please line up at the podium. Now each person will have two minutes to speak. For the records. There are no in person Public Comments. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call for 15655. Access code 2482. 237 2791 then pound if you havent already done so please dial star three to line up to speak a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been muted and you may begin your comments. Please note that you will have two minutes. Moderator do we have any
Minutes. Good morning, welcome to this hearing. Called fentanyl the next wave of the Opioid Crisis. America is a full on Opioid Crisis. Two decades ago it started with the overprescribing of opioid drugs. Then it shifted more to heroine. Today, the subcommittee examines the next wave of the Opioid Crisis in a more dangerous threat to our streets, fentanyl. Since all is made in a lab and for many years that has been a powerful pain medication with patient for cancer. I would add to this when i remembered when i was injured in iraq a few years ago, Battlefield Medicine meant in recovery, they give me lots of fentanyl patches and i know what its like to have the reaction to it. Its 50 times more potent than heroin. One hundred more times quoted than morphine. Now fentanyl has become an additive to even counter. Prescription drugs. Drug dealers increase supply, get more addicts sort of like mst and foods. Users often dont even know that fentanyl is in the heroine. Fentanyl crisis is except
Minutes. Good morning, welcome to this hearing. Called fentanyl the next wave of the Opioid Crisis. America is a full on Opioid Crisis. Two decades ago it started with the overprescribing of opioid drugs. Then it shifted more to heroine. Today, the subcommittee examines the next wave of the Opioid Crisis in a more dangerous threat to our streets, fentanyl. Since all is made in a lab and for many years that has been a powerful pain medication with patient for cancer. I would add to this when i remembered when i was injured in iraq a few years ago, Battlefield Medicine meant in recovery, they give me lots of fentanyl patches and i know what its like to have the reaction to it. Its 50 times more potent than heroin. One hundred more times quoted than morphine. Now fentanyl has become an additive to even counter. Prescription drugs. Drug dealers increase supply, get more addicts sort of like mst and foods. Users often dont even know that fentanyl is in the heroine. Fentanyl crisis is except