And lee hamilton speak an event hosted by the bipartisan tom king and lee hamilton speak an event hosted by the bipartisan next, look at a report on Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health issues. Health and Human Services secretary tom price took part in the event hosted by the Substance Abuse and Health Services administration. This is one hour and 40 minutes. Good morning welcome. Im director of the Sampson Center for mental Health Services and umc for today. Each year sampson releases most recent findings from the National Service on drug use and health. Its commonly referred to as listed. Were releasing results from the 2016 survey and privilege to have our assistant secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse here today to present the key Substance Use and Mental Health indicators. Today marks the 28th annual recovery month observant thats special to me. I among men in the room and thousands across this nation is your proof and evidence that treatment works and people do recove
Want to be in by quoting the two of my fellow, people recover every day. They get well and go on to do incredible things. The power possibility of people in recovery is immense. Power of possibility is what has fueled our nations ingenuity and growth and our belief in the power of possibility is fundamental to our success including our countrys success in addressing major health issues. We have come together to conquer challenges posed by Health Conditions and is succeeded in their efforts by science based policy to reduce the incidence of the hype lifethreatening health. As data continues to identify the biological environment all factor underlying Substance Abuse disorders and develops treatment we already have sufficient data in hand to shape our response to our current crises. We know addiction is caused by commendation of properties of the drug, overdose induration and individual factors related to genetics and environmental risks. For many people physical and Emotional Trauma can
Boroughs. Tom price wajoined by officials from the Substance Abuse anmental Health Services administration. This is an hour and 40 minutes. Good morning. Each year, samhsa releases findings. Today, samhsas release of results from the 2016 survey. Mccancekatznore toe today to prevent present the key indicato from the report. Today also marks shsas 28 and the oral recovery month observance. 28 recoveryth month observance. You are prevent evidence that treatment works and people do recover. [cheers and applause] recovery month prides an opportunity for us to save those fromubstance abuse and Mental Illness. The hard workates of dedicated professionals in the field, of advocates, of grassroots organizations, and of the mily members and friends who have joined their loved ones on their journeys of recovery. To begin todays program, i am honored to introduce our. Ssistant secretary and is aved her phd gruate of the university of Connecticut School of micine. Mccancekatz has experience in the
Thursday to vote on this Senate Budget version, you heard morning, earlier this talk about it, if that gets passed, it paves way to efforts tax reform on house and senate side. With that in mind, lets go to the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. , clerk the speakers room washington, d. C. , october 25, 2017. I hereby appoint the honorable scott perry to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and t
We are looking forward to a year of trying to make more progress on an issue that is of great concern to all of us. Just a recap of last year briefly. Last year the comprehensive addiction and recovery act was passed by the house and senate and passed into law. It provided with resources to address the opiod and heroin epidemic. We passed the act at the very end of the 114th congress. It added an additional 1 billion of funding to combat this epidemic. The house rolled out in the course of one week 18 bills last year that really became the foundation and much of the detail of what ultimately was passed into law. There is still a lot of work to be done. Last year over 52,000 americans died of a dress overdose, 52,000. 33,000 of them were opiod related deaths. Thats hundreds of people on any given day that are dying. This week is just beginning and we lost people already. First we educate members of congress and issue of affordable and effective treatment, Law Enforcement issues, etceter