Policymakers face while working to decrease the number of fentanyl and synthetic opioidrelated deaths. This is 40 minutes. Thank you, james. Thank you. Yes, my name is bryce. Im here with beau. Id like to introduce dr. P reuter and taylor, who collaborated on this cover has of report. In addition, we would like to acknowledge the fact we dedicated this work to mark, who recently passed away, one of the major mentors in drug policy, who thought innovatively when it comes to drug policy. That said, fentanyl, yes, it is right now the driving force behind Overdose Deaths in the United States. To give you brief takeaways in the work, the main key point from this report is basically that the nature and magnitude of the crisis brought on by opioids is unlike a traditional drug epidemic, and were better thought of as a poisoning outbreak. If we limit our policy responses to traditional approaches, these will likely be insufficient and will condemn a lot of individuals. To an early grave. Two p
They both served 23 2011. Right in the meat of the last recession and prior to it. So this panel is going to be a bit of a History Lesson. I think they put this off, depressingly wonderfully. If you can say that is a phrase. Ive heard him speak a few times. Ive never heard him speak on something negative. This is going to be a bit of a History Lesson so i want to set the stage of it or what was going on in the years and months leading up to when it started. So its just a reminder, the Great Recession started in the end of 2007 and it was the largest instate revenue on record. By 2010, a loss in total revenue that they glossed from the downturn. In times of economic downturn, theres more pressure on services and things that pressure and money disappearing. Id like to set the stage a bit for these two states. For vermont, heading into 2009, before the stimulus began kicking in, the state was looking at a 82 million defic deficit, heading into 2009 and you think thats bad, they were proje
Citizenship and immigration allices began denying nonmilitary deferred action requests. Most of these request are made by sick immigrants and their family seeking to stay in the United States to receive critical medical care than is simply not available to them in their home country. House oversight subcommittee on medical deferred action requests part 1 medically deferred deportations the administration decided to cast out people and there some who be sentenced to death by this harsh policy. One person here today participated wanted to put dissipate in a medical study that extended life by tenure spirit to live she relies on a medical infusion unavailable in her home country. She will tell you about it. Mr. Sanchez suffers from Cystic Fibrosis, a disease that my family knows well. Im also the proud reppo senate of of the Cystic Fibrosis foundation and michael ray county, which has in Monterey County which led a campaign that transformed treatment of such a sit to fibrosis and made ame
Host malcolm gladwell, book number six out this week talking to strangers. What is the premise of this book, your latest book . Malcolm the premise of this latest book is that were not very good at talking to strangers. I was struck by how many of the kind of contemporary high profile controversies that we find ourselves in come down to the same problem, that two people who didnt know each other very well attempt to communicate and fail or attempt to understand each other and fail, Bernie Madoff, people had conversations with Bernie Madoff and never understood who he was. The Jerry Sandusky case at penn state. Brock turner Sexual Assault case at stanford a few years back, these are failed communications. And the one that really, the book starts and ends with, the signature case im concerned with is the sandra brand case, which is one of those high profile encounters between African Americans and Law Enforcement that was, excuse me, so much in the news a few years ago, which was a conve
Michigans contom mated water supply. As always well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning on monday, september 16. Well begin this morning with calls from some democrats to Impeach Supreme Court Justice Brett kavanaugh after the New York Times over the weekend corroborated, they say, previous allegations of Sexual Misconduct and revealed new allegations. Those allegations raising questions about whether Justice Cavanaugh perjured himself during the confirmation hearings last year. Democrats, 2027488000, publicans 2027488001 and independents, 202748800 it 2 2788003 or go to twitter and post comments on facebook. Com cspan. Well get to your thoughts in a minute. Lets begin with the new york piece that ran over the weekend and the headline was Brett Kavanaugh was one of the privileged kids and she didnt fit in with the privileged kids. A story about Deborah Ramirez and her allegations that surfaced