And those seniors are a subject of abuse and theft. I would like to encourage you to move this ordinance to the full board so the seniors are dispose of their medications and keep the land speaker im going to call a couple more cards. Kenny, keith and charles minister, and dede workman and larry. Speaker michael lion for California Alliance for retired americans and great panthers. We strongly urge that you pass this legislation onto the full board of supervisors. Speaking from a senior perspective, medication errors after heart attacks and strokes are the biggest cause of admission to Emergency Rooms throughout the state. This is largely because our medications change often. When we go to the hospital, were offered new medication in addition to the ones we were regularly taking. Those come home with us and clutter up our medicine cabinets. Paradox, another effect of the epidemic of opioids abuse is that for people with chronic pain, its becoming harder for them to be able to get pain
Is a no brainier. Well fair groups and recovery addictions and others have chime have chimed in to support this. Vote yes and approve and send this with full recommendation to the board. Thank you. Speaker thank you. And now im going to call speaker cards starting with maria muni. If you can line up to my left. Im going to call a couple of other names. Jenny, and michael lion, david grant. I dont know if this is michael or michelle. The last names is lion from the great panthers. Starting with mara. Speaker i want to thank breed for your leadership and for considering this policy. I do urge you to support the drug take back legislation. Excessive waste has been proven to impact our environment and were seeing pharmaceuticals reaching alarming levels in the bay including antibodies and antidepressants and anxiety reducers. These are major food source for bay area species. And we can expect to see these chemicals, bio accumulating and top consumers here such as sea lions and sharks and h
Repeatedly, you become depend on them and addiction have followed these curves as theyre shown here. We have a little bit of San Francisco statistics about the deaths and supervisor breed mentioned this earlier. 127 prescription poisoning deaths and out of those, most were op theyre sedatives used in Mental Health. There was one study done on prescription opioids cost. It showed a 55 billion cost to the United States in 2007. Some was work place and some were health care and some was criminal justice. The National Institution of drug abuse asked what was their first a young people use pills as well. This is from the modern of future studies that looks at high school. Kids, basically. And theyre using various prescriptions, vicodin, sedatives, oxy cotton and ritalin. Its not just people on the street addicted, but its young people taking some of these pills. And when theyre asked about where they got the pills, many of them are taking their own leftover medication. So again, you are pre
And your child is there with me. So hell, robin in doha, reminder of all the top news stories. At least 14 people are being killed and a Russian Missile strike. Theyve happened and the ukranian city of jap reacher and upon the block was hit and it said that more people have been trapped in the rubble ukraines president Tuscola Shelly merciless, where we challenge as more the damage zapper is. Yeah, the city has experience, nights after night of this, the civilians there have been repeatedly pounded by Russian Missile and air strikes. Attacks, often hitting apartment, buildings and homes. Its indiscriminate that best. Its a intentional at worst. I think he cried and certainly feel that it is intentional. Thats why they describe russia as a terrorist state. The latest round of air strikes were told by craner authorities 12 miss Alice Laurence from russian plains last night. At least one Apartment Building hits. 5 homes destroyed. Now, what happens possibly to trigger this when of course,
Hello, i am fully battle in doha with a look at our main stories on al jazeera, at least 12 people have been killed in a rush, an attack in the ukrainian city of zachary ship, ukrainian official, say, Russian Forces, shout residential areas overnight where we challenge is in keith whitmore. Zach parisha, the city has experience, nights after night of this, the civilians there have been repeatedly pounded by Russian Missile and air strikes. Attacks, often hitting Apartment Buildings and holmes. Its indiscriminate at best. Its a intentional, at worst, i think ukrainian certainly feel that it is intentional. Thats why they describe russia as a terrorist state. The latest round of air strikes were told by craner authorities 12 miss Alice Laurence from russian plains last night. At least one Apartment Building hits 5 homes destroyed. Now, what happens possibly to trigger this one . Of course there was the attack on the crimean bridge, which ukraine and the moment is not expressed explicitly