teenagers in florida. allegedly bribing those teenagers to fight each other. also, opoid emergency. with more than 2 million americans addicted to opioids in 2016, drug addiction is ravaging our country. what doctors are seeing themselves. that s ahead. i m sure everyone at this table has heard the i got my wisdom teeth removed story. now i m using heroin. s seems a little. strange? na. ever since we switched to fedex ground business has been great. they re affordable and fast. maybe too affordable and fast. what if. people aren t buying these books online, but they are buying them to protect their secrets?!?! hi bill. if that is your real name. it s william actually. hmph! affordable, fast fedex ground.
light of this being a national emergency. and so why is that the case? why are you having to ration it? we just don t have the resources to purchase narcan. i have about 10,000 units left between now and july of 2018. so i have to decide how am i going to give this medication out? who are the people who are most at risk. we know what works when it comes to stopping overdose. we just need the resources to get there. standby for me, if you can, dr. wynn. i want to bring in congressman peter welch. a democratic congressman from vermont. vermont is a state that saw a 22% jump in opoid overdose deaths in 2015. that s the latest year for these statistics. congressman, thanks for your time. this is not an epidemic that started under this president. it s one that s been growing for decades now, in particular, since the turn of the century. why has washington been so
some time in the very short, very near future on opioids. in terms of declaring a national emergency. the opoid crisis is an emergency and i m saying officially right now it is an emergency. it s a national emergency. we re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opoid crisis. we re going to draw it up and we re going to make it a national emergency. so, craig, president trump expected to make that announcement in short order and we also expect him to potentially get personal in talking about this. again, this is an issue and a crisis that has impacted a lot of his constituents. it s been a key focus for the white house from the very beginning. to be clear, are we talking about new money being allocated to fight the opoid crisis in this country or talking about a reallocation of existing fund, if you will? important question, craig. right now, we re talking about a
has previously called, quote, a national emergency. he is not expected to call it that officially though. rather, it is expected he will call it a public health emergency. the difference, among other things, dollars and cents. we have assembled quite the team of experts. starting with nbc s kristen welker at the white house. what are we expecting to hear from the president? as you said, krascraig, the president is going to declare that open yoipd, opoids are a public health emergency. before we get to what that means, what it doesn t means, it means that states won t have access to the fund crisis. it will be for short-term crises like hurricanes and other natural disasters. they argue that naming it a public health emergency will reduce some regulations. let s look at some of the top lines of what specifically this