Continuing our conversation with all of you this morning about what it is like in your community, what are seeing, what are the problems and what do you think the solutions are . Those with experience with opioid, professionals and all other. To dan, a medical professional in hawaii. Line. S for waiting on the go ahead. Caller good morning. Thank you cspan for letting me talk in this forum. Was a cardiopulmonary specialist for 45 years and recently retired. 197075, 80, 85, i remember working in hospital emergency rooms, you saw many, many, many overdose patients. He patients we saw, i assisted treating, were patients from the African American community, the well, all spanics, as the ghetto areas. Wasnt a back then it problem. Apparently nobody thought nything of it, it was just a ghetto problem. Ah, just those people. Cases where opioids and where were they getting the opioid . From the street. No one bothered to research because it wasnt and im not trying to be a this, but s saying it
Host welcome to maines Second District congressional debate. The incumbent Bruce Poliquin and emily cain debate has garnered national attention. First, background on the two candidates in alphabetical order. Emily cain moved to maine from new jersey with her family at 17, studied at the music at the university of maine and holds a masters degree from the Harvard Graduate School of education. In 2004 she was elected to the maine house and rose to the chair of the appropriations committee, then minority leader in 2010. She served in the maine senate and work for a decade at u maine. 2 years ago she lost to Bruce Poliquin in the Second District. Bruce poliquin was born in waterville and started politics at harvard, made a career in adjustment antigens adjustment management. He has returned to maine in the real estate business. After losing a bid for governor in 2010, he rent as straight he ran as state treasurer. Thanks for being here. Emily, why are you the best candidate to serve maines
So i always talk to reporters why are you now saying somethingses that youre saying i said for months because aye been talking about real ideas and they dont cover them. I give speeches about educationing and they ignore it. I give speeches about health care and they ignore it, but you talk about it you talk about anything that has nothing to do with that, and they jump all over it. It leads the newscast. What a sad indictment on the state of the political debate in this country today. [applause] so from time to time i read the main tweet, but i never stop talking about the ideas you deserve to have. Theyre on my website go on it now. Not now, when youre done, marco rubio. Com and youll see we have a real plan to fix our tax code. We have a real plan to roll back regulation. We have a real plan to save Social Security and medicare. We have a real plan to balance our budget one of the most embarrassing moments in the last debate is when donald trump was asked about the debt and he said
Addicted to Prescription Drugs and overusing and misusing Prescription Drugs, and then the price of heroin on our streets so low and people going to heroin and also a combination of heroin and a deadly drug called fentanyl. So i very much want to thank senators portman, whitehouse and klobuchar for the work that weve been doing together over the last several years on this bill and to see this bill come to the senate floor. This is a very important piece of legislation that will help us address the Public Health epidemic facing my home state of New Hampshire and this country. This is something ive come to the floor on on several occasions before. And traveling around my state, i cant tell you the number of stories that ive heard from people in New Hampshire and what were facing, and the number of lives that are lost, the number of lives that are devastated by heroin and fentanyl and the misuse of Prescription Drugs. This is a lifeordeath issue in my state. The number of Drug Overdose de
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