Pensions committee. This is part of a series of hearings the committee is holding on the epidemic. Senate committee on health, education, labor, and pensions will please come to order. Today, we turn our attention again to the Opioid Crisis. The nations number one Public Health challenge. Our witness today is sam quinones, the author of dreamland, a true tale of americas opiate epidemic. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, then ill introduce the witness. Then well hear from mr. Quinones, and then senators will each have five minutes of questions. Since hes our only witness, i have suggested to him if he wants to take a little more than five minutes to say whatever he has to say, we would welcome that. But there will be plenty of conversation back and forth with members of the committee. Member quinones, it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearings. But this is an unusual topic, one you quote Washington State Research Professor Gary Franklin as calling th
On the Opioid Epidemic and testified on his research and what he has learned in the course of writing his book. This is two hours. , our witness is sam quinones author of dreamland, a true story of americas Opioid Epidemic. Senators will each have five minutes of questions. Since he is our only witness, if he wants to take more than five minutes to say what he wants to say, we would welcome that. , it is unusual to have a single witness at our hearings and this is an unusual topic, one you say the Washington Post is going the worst manmade epidemic in history. The challenge this crisis presents has captured the attention of every member of this committee. Your research and writing has been acclaimed for its depth and rep depth and breath. This is a bipartisan hearing, one in which democrats and republicans have agreed on the topic and its importance. This is one i hope we will restrain from lecturing each other about Health Insurance and focus on the topic the Opioid Crisis. This epide
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R royal avenue were on lockdown. So all of the High School Students and those preschool kids were all inside and they remained inside for several hours. Theyre still looking for that suspect described as a male hispanic in his 20s. Im live in hayward, leanne melendez, abc7 news. An officer was rammed by car at hayes and pierce. The fleeing driver also struck another car. Reporter the officer that was hit has nonlifethreatening injuries. There are three suspects that are in custody today, one of those suspects was also injured and meantime a couple visiting from orlando who had just arrived here in San Francisco, saw their rental car being broken into moments before that undercover officer sprang into action. Under cover San Francisco Police Officers with northern station were conducting surveillance in the area of alamo square in an area known for car break ins. As officers watched, so did aarons husband. He said come back, our car was smashed, our car was broken. Reporter the couple h
More infon for your vacation planning is available at aruba. Com. And now, bbc world news. Rajini this is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, im rajini vaidyanathan. More tensions between the president and the fbi. Donald trump is set to appve the release of her republican memo that accuses the agency of bias against him. Beijing continues its crackdown on ethnic minorities in northwest china. We have a special report. And going for gold. Meet the Nigerian Women whose bobsled team will make histo at the Winter Olympics later this month. Rajini welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and around the globe. A controversial memo written by republican members of the House Intelligence Committee based on classified materials ce made public as early as tomorrow. Thnddocument accuses the fbi Justice Department of antitrump bias and will be released despite strong objections from the democrats and what the fbi said were its grave concerns. As he left the state of t