The National Institute on drug abuse. This is two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning. Welcome to this hearing called fentanyl the next wave of the Opioid Crisis. America is in a full on Opioid Crisis. It started with the overprescribing of opioid drugs and then shifted more to heroin. Today, the subcommittee examines the next wave of the Opioid Crisis and fentanyl. Fentanyl is made in the lab and for many years, it has been a powerful pain medication used by patients with cancer or for those with extreme pain. When i was injured in iraq a few years ago, Battlefield Medicine they, and recovery, gave me lots of fentanyl patches. It is 50 times more potent than heroine and 100 times more potent than morphine. Now, fentanyl has been a powerful additive. This is the way the drug dealers increase profits and expand the number of addicts, by juicing the potency of heroine or other street drugs, like people have done with msg in foods. Users often do not know that fentanyl is in the heroine. T
The National Institute on drug abuse. This is two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning. Welcome to this hearing called fentanyl the next wave of the Opioid Crisis. America is in a full on Opioid Crisis. It started with the overprescribing of opioid drugs and then shifted more to heroin. Today, the subcommittee examines the next wave of the Opioid Crisis and fentanyl. Fentanyl is made in the lab and for many years, it has been a powerful pain medication used by patients with cancer or for those with extreme pain. When i was injured in iraq a few years ago, Battlefield Medicine they, and recovery, gave me lots of fentanyl patches. It is 50 times more potent than heroine and 100 times more potent than morphine. Now, fentanyl has been a powerful additive. This is the way the drug dealers increase profits and expand the number of addicts, by juicing the potency of heroine or other street drugs, like people have done with msg in foods. Users often do not know that fentanyl is in the heroine. T
Delegates trying to stop donald trump from a nomination. We want to hear from republicans only, your thoughts on the dump Trump Delegates. We want to get your thoughts on not only the delegates, but the role on the nomination process they may play. Four eastern and central time zones. 202 7488001 four mountains and for mountain and pacific time zones. Ourou want to post on facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. Ed okeefe in the pages of the Washington Post wrote about these efforts by dozens of delegates planning to go to the convention to stop donald trump from getting the nomination. Theseite up saying Republican Convention delegates are hatching a new plan to block donald trump. The move comes from amidst declining poll numbers from and growing concern over republicans that he is squandering his chance to beat Hillary Clinton. His recent controversies including his support for changing the nations gun law have raised fears among most republicans that trump is not really a conservative
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