Today, fentanyl is now driving the unprecedented number of drug overdoses in the United States. Joining me now to discuss the Opioid Epidemic and other issues is the director of the White House Office of National Drug control policy, dr. Rahul gupta. Thank you for coming to Washington Post live. Dr. Gupta thank you for having me. Appreciate it. The fentanyl overdoses are in evolution from the prescription pain meds epidemic from the early 2000s. Talk about that evolution and where does fentanyl come from and what is the administration doing now to stop it coming into the country . Dr. Gupta as a practicing physician for the last two decades plus, i was right there in the trenches the result that would happen was we started to see people start dying because of over toys and opioids, prescription opioids. And as we moved forward to make really good policies to prevent that from happening, the consequence was people moved to the cheaper, more readily available alternative often times, tha
As chair of this committee, ive worked to ensure that every person dealing with addiction can access comprehensive treatment and care and when it comes to the bad actors that fuel this crisis, i have use this gavel to hold them accountable for their actions. This feeling comes at a very difficult moment for our nation. Overdose deaths in america have been rising for more than two decades and during the coronavirus pandemic, fatal overdoses skyrocketed to historic levels. Tragically, Overdose Deaths increased by more than 36 2020 and another 15 in 2021 with more than 100,000 lives lost. Biden Harris Administration and democrats in congress have taken aggressive action to address the supply and demand factors contributing to this races. President biden to office we have stopped more fentanyl at the border than ever before. This administration hasnt reached drug intervention seizing 800 pounds of pencil each month. This represents a or full increase in fentanyl interdiction over the previ
As chair of this committee, ive worked to ensure that every person dealing with addiction can access comprehensive treatment and care and when it comes to the bad actors that fuel this crisis, i have use this gavel to hold them accountable for their actions. This feeling comes at a very difficult moment for our nation. Overdose deaths in america have been rising for more than two decades and during the coronavirus pandemic, fatal overdoses skyrocketed to historic levels. Tragically, Overdose Deaths increased by more than 36 2020 and another 15 in 2021 with more than 100,000 lives lost. Biden Harris Administration and democrats in congress have taken aggressive action to address the supply and demand factors contributing to this races. President biden to office we have stopped more fentanyl at the border than ever before. This administration hasnt reached drug intervention seizing 800 pounds of pencil each month. This represents a or full increase in fentanyl interdiction over the previ
As chair of this committee, ive worked to ensure that every person dealing with addiction can access comprehensive treatment and care and when it comes to the bad actors that fuel this crisis, i have use this gavel to hold them accountable for their actions. This feeling comes at a very difficult moment for our nation. Overdose deaths in america have been rising for more than two decades and during the coronavirus pandemic, fatal overdoses skyrocketed to historic levels. Tragically, Overdose Deaths increased by more than 36 2020 and another 15 in 2021 with more than 100,000 lives lost. Biden Harris Administration and democrats in congress have taken aggressive action to address the supply and demand factors contributing to this races. President biden to office we have stopped more fentanyl at the border than ever before. This administration hasnt reached drug intervention seizing 800 pounds of pencil each month. This represents a or full increase in fentanyl interdiction over the previ
They stick together. You never see them break off. You never see somebody go out and thats why i respect it so much. Republicans have to get tougher and fight. We have some that are great fighters but they have to get tougher and fight because the democrats are trying to hurt the Republican Party for the election. The president struggling to reset the narrative while saying its quote a foregone conclusion he will be impeached. Clearly, theres a line for republicans who have found it harder, in some cases, to defend the president. Nbc news reporting, for example, that during a saturday meeting with moderate house republicans, trump was told that the majority of the room felt it was best for him to reverse himself on having the g7 at doral. And then he did that. The New York Times reports that republicans were not eager to have to defend the appropriateness of the president s decision. But today, he wasnt backing down that the g7 should have been at his own property. It would have been g