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
Testified before the House Appropriations subcommittee on funding and research efforts. This is about two and a half hours. The subcommittee will come to order. Thank you all very much and we apologize for being late. They his take on a life of their own. I wanted to say good morning and welcome back to labor the appropriations subcommittee. Let me just say thank you on the behalf of the subcommittee for hosting members of the subcommittee for this site visit. Thats the nih campus last week. We had a wonderful opportunity to learn about nih is outwork. We met with a who are working to cure Sickle Cell Disease and develop treatment for major depressions and shrink cancer tumors in children. We heard from participants whose lives have been changed by Clinical Trials it wasnt informative moving experience as well. And we welcome our witnesses including the five institute senator actors returns today. And in addition and always a great addition doctor Francis Collins who has joined us many
Testified before the House Appropriations subcommittee on funding and research efforts. This is about two and a half hours. The subcommittee will come to order. Thank you all very much and we apologize for being late. They his take on a life of their own. I wanted to say good morning and welcome back to labor the appropriations subcommittee. Let me just say thank you on the behalf of the subcommittee for hosting members of the subcommittee for this site visit. Thats the nih campus last week. We had a wonderful opportunity to learn about nih is outwork. We met with a who are working to cure Sickle Cell Disease and develop treatment for major depressions and shrink cancer tumors in children. We heard from participants whose lives have been changed by Clinical Trials it wasnt informative moving experience as well. And we welcome our witnesses including the five institute senator actors returns today. And in addition and always a great addition doctor Francis Collins who has joined us many
The subcommittee will come to order. Thank you all very, very much and, again, we apologize for being late. Days take on a life of their own. But i wanted to say good morning, dr. Collins. Welcome back to labor hhs, the appropriations subcommittee. Let me just say thank you on behalf of the of the subcommittee for hosting members of the subcommittee for the site visit at the nih campus last week. We had a wonderful opportunity to learn more about nihs work. We met with the researchers who were working to cure Sickle Cell Disease, to develop treatments for major depression, shrink and treat cancer tumors in children. We heard from participants whose lives have been changed by Clinical Trials. So it was a moving an informative but a very moving experience as well. Let me welcome our witnesses, including the five institute and Center Directors who join us today and in addition, and always a great addition, dr. Francis collins whos joined us many times, director of the National Institutes
Collins and other and i age leaders testify before House Appropriations subcommittee on funding and research efforts. This is about 21 2 hours. The subcommittee will come to order. Thank you very much and apologize for being late. They take on a life of their own. I wanted to say good morning, welcome back to labor hhs, appropriations subcommittee. Let me say thank you on behalf of of the subcommittee for hosting members of the subcommittee for the site visit at the nih campus last week. We had a wonderful opportunity to learn more about nihs work, we learned about researchers working to develop treatments for major depression, shrinkage free cancer tumors in children, we heard from participants whose lives have been changed by Clinical Trials so it was a moving and informative experience. Let me welcome our witnesses including the five Institute Center directors who joined us today and in addition, always a great addition doctor Francis Collins, director of the National Institute of h