The Traffic Safety administration gave at the lifesavers award in 2010 and the Justice Department gave judge long an award in 2013. Alm. S left is stephen he is a judge in hawaii. He was the attorney for the district of hawaii. He took the bench in 2001 and has been a circuit judge in honolulu ever sense. A he has established the hope program as a means of using probation and drug testing and the imposition of certain punishments as a means of deterring illegal drug use and crime. He runs both the hope and add hope programs for why. Like the 24 7 the program, the hope row graham has received numerous awards. The specialeceived merit citation. 2009, he received the mcgovern award. 2013, the Kennedy School of government named it one of the top 25 innovations in government. He received an, award and is here now only after receiving that and will be able to tell you about that in this program. Dr. Robert l dupont. He is the director of Unity Services for the district of Columbia Department
Produced, my message to my party and policy leaders on capitol hill is very simple. When republicans regain the senate this fall and when republicans regain the white house in 2016, it will not be enough simply to cut Government Spending in washington. I think it is incumbent on our party to promote policies that will permanently reduce the size and scope of the government and restore to the states the resources and a news survey on navigators and brokers. Navigators and brokers help people sign up for health care on the exchanges. The next enrollment for beginsing purchasing november 15. His is one hour 40 minutes if i could have your attention, lets try to get started. If i could have your attention, lets try to get started. Im from the alliance for Health Reform and welcome you to this program on behalf of senator blunt and our board of directors. Its a briefing on the people and programs in place in each state to help consumers understand their Health Insurance options, help them a
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
State university and the university of south dakota law school. From 1973 through 1990, he was a states attorney and prosecuted hundreds of felony cases. He served as the chief Deputy Attorney general for south dakota. In 2002 was elected t eed the s Dakota Attorney general. He has been a judge since then. He created the 24 7 Sobriety Program you will hear about today. Its a zero Tolerance Program for alcohol abusing offenders that give them a chance to dry out and walk right without going to prison. It has been recognized as being effective, efficient and humane. In 2008, council of state governments saw the merit in the program by awarding it an innovations award. The institute for behavior and Health Awarded it the john p. Mcgovern award in 2009. The national Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave it the life savosavers award in 2. To his left is the honorable stephen ohm. Judge ohm is a former prosecutor and now sits as a judge in hawaii. From 1994 to 2001, he was the United St
Afraid to save the life of a Family Member or a loved one because of legal liability. I recently introduced a bill called the opiate overdose reduction act. Its a simple solution to a problem. It extends protections to people who step in to save the lives of a person who is overdosing by administering a drug and that we need a National Good samaritan law so that people will step in. How many lives do you think would be saved if we had such a law . We know one of prime issues why people overdose and die is failure to call 911 in an emergency. Clearly, signaling to people that they shouldnt be afraid to call 911 is a significant advancement in how were going to reduce overdose deaths. A Good Samaritan law would help here . Absolutely. Do you agree with that. Yes. And i think thats really something we can do to pass a law which does provide that can samaritan protection. Doctor, isnt it true that for opiate addicts in prison, treatment approach that works bet best is combining medication