There has been a rise in the prescription of anxiety medications and other sedative hypnotic needs. In 2014 and 15 in rhode island, 33 of those receiving opioid prescriptions were coprescribed benzodiazapines. This is a tremendous, tremendous deadly combination and has been a significant variable in the increase in opioid Overdose Deaths in rhode island and the statistics show nationally. So along with fentanyl, we need to look at the coprescription of benzodiazapine. Other strategies for the prevention of initiation include but are not limited to patient education and the use and storage of medication, family education, continued Public Health education venues and peer recovery resources. Treatment within a recovery oriented system of care individualized for the patient that is easily accessible can prevent the progression of the disease and the possibility of overdose. And i can skip here. Im quoting directly here from the rhode island governors Overdose Prevention and Intervention T
When the economy goes into recession, some of these programs they are like 1. 75 benefit for every 1 we spend on s. N. A. P. So to block grant this, we are automatical automatically cutting gdp. I dont have much time. Mr. Chairman, i just want to say you dont have any time. Im talking to you now. Im not asking any more questions. The gentle ladys time has expired. Okay. We will now hear from the gentleman from South Carolina for five minutes. I was asking about the process. I think, chairman, a couple observations and a question. One, i was struck by my colleagues conversation from new jersey on Social Security and raising the payroll tax. As we all know, there are unintended consequences and politics is ultimately what drives washington, d. C. As we remember, you know, Social Security was put in place as a social insurance program. If you lift the caps, you really move it to a social Welfare Program. People like to link it between i pay in, therefore i get more over the years. If you
She was questioned by the groups president , former congressman phil sharp. This is an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to resources for the future to hear epa administrator gina mccarthy. And since she has wonderfully attracted a much larger audience for rff, im going to indulge a couple of moments about who we are and what were up to, if you dont mind, or whether you mind or not. Let me just quickly say i think many people realize that we are an organization that strives to achieve highquality, objective research on major Public Policy questions related to energy, environment, and natural resources. Our organizations been at this for more than 60 years. We also try to promote serious public discourse, which is not always a simple thing to do in the washington, d. C. Area. Let me suggest to you that on the Climate Change issues in particular, and the various policy choices, rff scholars have been working on these for more than a decade so that we have done and are doing analysis on
Developing countries respond to that at the summit . I know you met with people on the side. Yeah. There are a lot of things that i saw being discussed that relate to the president s plan. We had and most of the meetings i went to were with industry, so it was really fun. Large industries as well as small. We talked about the 111d proposal and the broad context about its sort of gamechanging nature, that its a really strong signal for the u. S. The president s presence there was clearly another strong signal. I also had discussions with oil and gas on methane commitments. There are some great opportunities to work internationally and we have the Largest Companies participating in those discussions through our climate and what is it called . Climate and clean air coalition, which is an International Sort of collaboration with dozens of countries and business sector. We talked a little bit about hfcs. There were big commitments on those as well. There was a lot of discussion over the dev
Touches. Stunning revelations from Colin Powells stolen emails. And nuclear hostage. As north korea scoffs at the United States show of force following its latest test explosion a u. S. General warns that america is being held nuclear hostage by kim jong uns regime. Can america do anything about this growing threat . We welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. I am wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. The breaking news, slowed by a bout of pneumonia kept hidden for days and has kept her off the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton has just released a detailed letter from her doctor that describes the diagnosis and treatment for her illness and sums up her latest physical exam, including vital signs, results of lab tests and current medications. Hours earlier, donald trump drew on his experience as a tv show man to reveal information from a recent physical exam. It came during a taping of the dr. Oz show, which reporters were n