With musculoskeletal injuries but what cause we dont know and we looked at it by not job code but department and not necessarily the trades. Well share that with you. The other thing is if its coming from an active injury and i think paige alluded to this it would be under workmans comp and wouldnt be in our numbers. A lot of the questions you ask will come back. Commissioner very good. Thank you. Thank you, paige. We have blue shield, is it . Yes, it is blue shield. Good afternoon. Commissioner good afternoon. Im the director of clinical pharmaceutical programs at blue shield. Im a pharmacist by profession. So you can answer some of the questions. And i want to, today, for having a chance to talk about our narcotic safety initiative. Its a passion project for us, a Passion Program for us. Basically in 2014 we started observing a lot the clerk we have a presentation. Thank you. We starting getting a growing voice of members telling us the prescription. Yesterday opioids were becoming a
And lee hamilton speak an event hosted by the bipartisan tom king and lee hamilton speak an event hosted by the bipartisan next, look at a report on Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health issues. Health and Human Services secretary tom price took part in the event hosted by the Substance Abuse and Health Services administration. This is one hour and 40 minutes. Good morning welcome. Im director of the Sampson Center for mental Health Services and umc for today. Each year sampson releases most recent findings from the National Service on drug use and health. Its commonly referred to as listed. Were releasing results from the 2016 survey and privilege to have our assistant secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse here today to present the key Substance Use and Mental Health indicators. Today marks the 28th annual recovery month observant thats special to me. I among men in the room and thousands across this nation is your proof and evidence that treatment works and people do recove
We have that ability so we can do a deeper dive. In looking at the population usage of potentially for a simple therapy pilot, we know a lot of our opioid usage or those with musculoskeletal injuries but what cause we dont know and we looked at it by not job code but department and not necessarily the trades. Well share that with you. The other thing is if its coming from an active injury and i think paige alluded to this it would be under workmans comp and wouldnt be in our numbers. A lot of the questions you ask will come back. Commissioner very good. Thank you. Thank you, paige. We have blue shield, is it . Yes, it is blue shield. Good afternoon. Commissioner good afternoon. Im the director of clinical pharmaceutical programs at blue shield. Im a pharmacist by profession. So you can answer some of the questions. And i want to, today, for having a chance to talk about our narcotic safety initiative. Its a passion project for us, a Passion Program for us. Basically in 2014 we started
Journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern monday morning. Join the discussion. State officials discuss efforts to combat opioid addiction. Two hours, 15 minutes. Good morning, everyone. Today the subcommittee of oversight and investigation holds a hearing entitled combatting the Opioid Crisis, battles in the states. Make no mistake, the terms combatting and battles are entirely appropriate. Our nation is in the midst of a tremendous fight against death and devastation affecting over corner of our nation. In 2015 there were more than 52,000 deaths from Drug Overdose in the u. S. With 33,000 involving opioid. 23 increase. In 2015 it was almost seven times the rate of deaths from the heroin epidemic of the 1970s. In 2016, weve lost roughly 60,000 people to Drug Overdoses, more in one year than all the names on the Vietnam Veterans memorial wall. And likely that number is underestimated because much of the data will not be in until the end of this year, 2017. Its staggering. For every fatal overd
Cannot supported the bill as written. This bill is currently in front of the United States senate. Not the answer. It is simply not the answer. And im announcing faye in this form, i will not support it. Hellers announcement was made alongside the republican governor Brian Sandoval who was among three who signed on retrump care which crucially included the vote, the medicaid provisions clugt in this bill are particularly problematic. Nevada is one of the states that second the Medicaid Expansion. He didnt just align himself with sandovals opposition to the gop effort to slash medicaid, he also said republicans are lying about the bill, about cutting premiums. We have 200,000, those were mental health, disabilities, mothers with children that today have insurance that they probably would not have had five years ago, six years ago. Im tell you now, i cannot support a piece of legislation that takes insurance away from tens of millions of americans and hundreds of thousands of nevadans. I