the senate committee will come to order. today s hearing is about the opioid crisis we re facing and what the federal government is doing about it. senator murray and i will each have an opening statement and we ll introduce the witnesses. after the testimony they will have five minutes of questions. the senate has inefficiently scheduled three votes starting now and all of us would like to hear the witness s testimony. the best thing to do is go ahead and get started with the opening statements. the opioid crisis is tearing our communities apart, tearing families apart and posing an enormous challenge to health care providers and law enforcement officials. the amount of opioids prescribed in the united states in 2015 was enough for every american to be medicated around the clock for three weeks. this is according to cdc. in 2016 there were over 7.6 million opioid prescriptions for pain in tennessee according to the tennessee department of health. that means there were 11,048
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Overdose deaths have tragically trended upward for a generation. So news last week that fatal overdoses in the United States declined last year offers some hope.