Opioid crisis at a white house event that included members of his administration. Following the announcement, the president took questions from reporters about hurricane this is just over half an hour. Pres. Trump thank you, everyone. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you very much for being here with us at the white house for a very important announcement. Something we have worked extremely hard on. Today, the department of health and Human Services is awarding 1. 8 billion in new grant money to fight the opioid epidemic, something we have had quite a bit of success on and we are continuing. I think you would be amazed at the results. We have been doing this from pretty much the beginning. These funds will be delivered to the communities where the help is most needed. Joining us this afternoon is the secretary of hhs, alex azar, dr. Robert redfield, the director for the centers for Disease Control, and some other friends i will introduce in a while. Thank you for your devotion in
Reporters about hurricane dorian, u. S. China trade relations, and Vice President pences recent state at a trump report resort in ireland as he travels overseas. Trump thank you, everyone. Thank you very much, everybody. You very much for being here with us at the white house for a very important announcement. Something we have worked extremely hard on. Today, the department of health and Human Services is awarding 1. 8 billion in new grant money to fight the opioid epidemic, something we have had quite a bit of success on and we are continuing. I think you would be amazed at the results. We have been doing this from pretty much the beginning. These funds will be delivered to the communities where the help is most needed. Joining us this afternoon is the retary of hhs, alec cesar azar, dr. Alex robert redfield, the director for the centers for Disease Control, and some other friends i will introduce in a while. Thank you for your devotion in particular for building a drugfree future fo
Come to order, without objective, chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Before mr. Connolly and i give Opening Statements, i want to thank everyone. Our guests, panelists, those in the audience, members and staff and everyone for how accommodating you were this morning. We had an unforeseen contingency that arose in our normal hearing room. Thank you for being so understanding. Over the past two decades, illicit drug use emerged as a Public Health and safety crisis with overdoses becoming the leading kauj of injury or death in the United States. Opioids specifically heroin and prescription pain relievers are the cause of most Overdose Deaths in the United States with a death rate more than doubling since the year 2000. In south carolina, which is where im from, at least 95 people die from heroin in 2015 which is almost twice as many as the Previous Year and more than 5660 died from the abuse of prescription opioids over the same period of time. 0 died from prescription o
Come to order, without objective, chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Before mr. Connolly and i give Opening Statements, i want to thank everyone. Our guests, panelists, those in the audience, members and staff and everyone for how accommodating you were this morning. We had an unforeseen contingency that arose in our normal hearing room. Thank you for being so understanding. Over the past two decades, illicit drug use emerged as a Public Health and safety crisis with overdoses becoming the leading kauj of injury or death in the United States. Opioids specifically heroin and prescription pain relievers are the cause of most Overdose Deaths in the United States with a death rate more than doubling since the year 2000. In south carolina, which is where im from, at least 95 people die from heroin in 2015 which is almost twice as many as the Previous Year and more than 5660 died from the abuse of prescription opioids over the same period of time. 0 died from prescription o
Before mr. Connolly and i give Opening Statements, i want to thank everyone. Our guests, panelists, those in the audience, members and staff and everyone for how accommodating you were this morning. We had an unforeseen contingency that arose in our normal hearing room. Thank you for being so understanding. Over the past two decades, illicit drug use emerged as a Public Health and safety crisis with overdoses becoming the leading kauj of injury or death in the United States. Opioids specifically heroin and prescription pain relievers are the cause of most Overdose Deaths in the United States with a death rate more than doubling since the year 2000. In south carolina, which is where im from, at least 95 people die from heroin in 2015 which is almost twice as many as the Previous Year and more than 5660 died from the abuse of prescription opioids over the same period of time. 0 died from prescription opioids over the same period of time. The epidemic is growing and lives are at stake, li