Agency, dea, to try to get scheduled narcotics on to electronic prescribing. And after years of bureaucratic battle, finally the regulations came out. I think that facilitates via electronic prescribing Prescription Drug monitoring, when you no longer have to go and ask for the paper scripts from individual doctors or from individual pharmacies, you can look at a database and you can see, wait a minute this, fellow is a podiatrist. Why are they prescribing oxycodo oxycodone . They prescribed 500 capsules last month and now theyre prescribing 5,000. Wait a minute. This person has gone to five doctors in five pharmacies for the same prescription. Whats going on . It opens investigatory doors. And yet, years later, its now electronic prescribing for all this stuff. The Prescription Drug monitoring programs dont seem to have yet really come online as a proper investigative tool to give us the common sense information that we need to make these determinations. What are the best next steps t
Prescription drugs. So i start with the demand issue with the Prescription Drugs and how we get to that. And id say, first of all, we have to do everything we can to reduce the supply. This means to me the drug takeback programs and getting them out of the hands of kids when its the number two thing theyre addicted to. Senator cornyn and i passed a bill back in 2010. Seems like quite a while ago, but still waiting on the rules that makes it easier and sets out some clear standards for how these drugs can be transported when they are put into takeback programs. We did that because theres Certain Police departments and longterm care facilities that still are not doing these programs. And theyre concerned about liability. What the bill does, it makes it easier for pharmacies, which would be excellent if they voluntarily did this. Ive done some events with pharmacies, if you can imagine, people bringing back their Prescription Drugs, getting them out of their medicine cabinets, bringing th
How big is the university of wisconsin madison . Madison has about 43,000 to 44,000 students. Its probably in the middle of the big ten, sixth or seventh, in that category of big ten. Its the Third Largest recipient of u. S. Dollars, its a major institution, its been ranked in the top five ever since i can remember. It puts a tremendous emphasis on research, and all the work thats being done in Stem Cell Research. And changing those into different heart cells and even retina cells. Research in the biosciences, its a phenomenal institution when it comes to research and energy and areas like that, its been very active in the weather station. I think we have 18 nobel prize winners, engineering and chemistry and medicine and physics, its a Major Research institution. And the university of wisconsin madison, its tuition fees for undergraduate degrees, for in state, youre looking at a little over 10,000. Out of state the price tag is 26,660. The room and board costs come in at about 8,600. W
They have good staff you will be a good senator if not, then. [laughter] i will not carry the hearing for word because i think the point needs to be made has been made because you have made them clearly with certainty with an anchor that i share so wherever you come from go back safely. Thank you. This hearing is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] hello did you get inside . Guest he was born. His lot was to be born. His parents were there. For reasons that are almost as lindsay. Because his fathers brother after the korean war had fled to south korea and after the authorities heard about that his father many brothers and parents were all rounded up to taken to camp 14 in that is where he was born. Schaede never told him and he never asked and they did not have the relationship where they would talk. His parents, his mom and dad conceived because they were chosen for something called a reward and she was bred like a farm animal in the camp and raised like a farm animal and physically
Southeast new england things will begin improving in new jersey and also the new york metropolitan area and it looks like by late in the day everybody should gradually begin to see some improvement. Pelley and how much snow well our accumulation map has shifted a little bit during the day today but again were targeting southeastern new england where we see the purples and the pink. Thats where we can see one to two feet of snow and its not out of the question an isolated spot may see more than that. Still, six to 12 inches will be possible back towards the south and also back toward the west. Pelley david, thank you very much. As you just saw boston is ground zero. It may get as much as three feet of snow. Terrell brown has found that travel there is coming to a halt by sea air and land. Reporter theres no escaping the blizzard in boston. Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick has ordered all cars in this state off the road. The rate of snowfall and reduced visibility during the evening