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Still helped by the product 2 were deceased from causes thought to be related to their opioid addiction and non last minute other things said if i was decoding mailbox once a month and i would find a bottle an oxy im constantly on it and i found the need to lower and is among the lucky survivors i will allow doctors to prescribe me x. Right now its a synthetic heroin. In 2010 to do introduced a new tamper resistant oxycontin with a spotlight focused on stopping pill mills in the new tamper resistant medication easy sources for prescription pain killers began to dry up prescription opioids were expensive on the black market. Heroin became a cheaper alternative i can remember this 15 years ago when my patients coming in here for buprenorphine treatment were saying you know heroin is a lot cheaper than most pills and it works. In 2016 the new england journal of medicine published a study that found that 76 percent of those seeking help for her when addiction began by abusing pharmaceutica
Sen. Sanders good evening, everybody and welcome to what i think will be a really exciting discussion tonight. We have three fantastic panelists with us, three soon to be members of the u. S. Congress who are going to take that progressive banner full standing into conflict with the establishment politicians and corporate elites who and represent the working families of this country. These are great people who have run great campaigns. Let me introduce them to you. Reelected last night in a landslide victory, they told us rashida, it was going to be a tough race. What was it, 6633 . 69. Really . But who is counting. Thank you also much. Thank you, bernie. I love about you is you didnt become the democratic nominee, but you didnt give up on this movement and you continue to support so many of us who are seeking truth, who are putting people before profits. I cannot thank you enough for not giving up on the movement and continuing to support people like us. Senator sanders how could i gi
Order. Will you please call the roll. roll call . All right. Moving onto the next item. The approval of the minutes of the Health Commission meeting of july 21, 2020. Before we begin with this item on maf o behalf of my fellow commissioners we approved to help equity resolution declari declaringit was based by the Human Rights Commission during their june 25th meeting. Ours had the addition of some resolved statements that were tailored to health and programs. On behalf of my fellow commissioners i want to acknowledge the critical work of the commission and their staff along with members of the Community Group mega black sf. And develop the resolution of the same name that was approved of the commission and all the hard work and energy they put in to creating that resolution. The commission is very proud of the resolution that contains some measurable outcomes to achieve equity and combatant eye black racism. It was apparent that there were some issues with respect to the development o