Good morning. The Senate Health education labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. Todayerer holding a hearing on our nations growing Mental Health and Substance Use disorder crisis. I will have an Opening Statement following by senator murkowski. Then we will introduce our witnesses. I believe Ranking Member will join us a little later as well. After the witnesses give their testimony, senators will each is have five minute farce for a round of questions. While we werent able to have it open to the public, live video is available on our Committee Website and if you are in need of accommodations, you can reach out to the committee or office of congressional accessibility services. We continue to see a high number of new covid cases, so we are having this hearing in a larger hearing room where we can be socially distanced limiting the number of people who are in the hearing room, experience depression, anxiety and other Mental Health disorders. Drug overdoses were on the
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Chair Sanders Senate committee on health, education, labor, and pensions will come to order. And were delighted to welcome our panelists who were going to hear from in a few minutes. Let me begin by telling everybody what they already know and that is it is no great secret that in America Today we have a Mental Health crisis and that crisis has been exacerbated by the horrific covid pandemic, which we have experienced. And this is a crisis that has hit all of us, but i think especially the younger generation. In America Today, 40 of parents report being either very or extremely worried that their child is struggling with anxiety or depression. According to a recent survey by the centers for disease control, nearly one out of every three teenagers in america reported that the state of their Mental Health was poor. Two out of every five teenagers felt persistently sad or hopeless. And tragically one out of every five teenagers in our country have seriously considered suicide. How frighte