Executive perry moore. I am also the cochair of the City County Task force on opioids that was done across the u. S. We had 20 elected officials at the city and county levels, ten city officials, ten county officials, the mayor of little rock arkansas was the cochair of the city side and i was the cochair on the county side. You will be hearing from one of those Panel Members today. When greg speaks. But our work that was done, was done it seems like ages ago. So much has happened since then we will be talking abed about that. The panel will be today. I want to thank those of you who are here in person as well as those of you that are here virtually. We know this is being broadcast live stream in a special thank you to arc for your partnership. What we do in county government is all about partnership. We partner with each other, we partner with various agencies, especially great partners like aoc. We are thankful for them. This event is the combination of a yearlong partnership to stre
Be not incarcerated, but that this is one of the fundamental points of the bill. I can send this to your office and see if you can weigh in maybe want to cosponsor or jump in. Dr. Howard . We worked with kentucky. It is about changing norms and getting people aware that it can be your neighbor, not some scary picture that you are used to seeing. We have people telling stories of how they recovered from addiction. It is hopeful. He can see her colleague in that and it is just getting that message out there more with those stories of recovery and those stories of loss. Children that they lost due to addiction. And then attaching that to how to get help. Governor tomlin. Governor tomlin we have had some successes and we continue to strive just as much. But we have had successes in closing down these drug mills changing the rules, i agree with governor malloy that one state cannot do it. Kentucky and West Virginia have worked together to share information so that you do not have people cro
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And its effect on the body, drug. Veryic addictive so those individuals, whether they get them from a doctor or , riend or a Family Member are at risk for eventual opioid addiction if not used properly that is correct. And you cite in the testimony its the relatively low price of heroin. And thats relatively low compared to past trends but also compared stot cost of opioid Prescription Drugs. Correct . Thats correct. So the street price of a gram of heroin compared to the street price, if you will, of an opioid pill or an oxy pill or something of that nature, thats correct. Thats what we consider to be one of the contributing factors. Avingt and the contricting factors. The work weve done in this body, trying to harmonize with. E house industry since carea we believe it here, were seeing in all of our states, if that if we dont get ahold of the culture of overprescription were just hollowing out communities the and that was drug addiction that came out of the medicine cabinet in many i
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