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
The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome our witness, acting director botacelli, this is the first time he appeared before the Appropriations Committee and i appreciate you coming to testify and thank you for your service. The office of National Drug control policy is charged with extremely Different Task of coordinating multiple efforts to it address many different drug related issues at home and abroad. In addition, you administer some of the very effective Drug Prevention and enforcement Grant Programs. And today the committee will examine the office of National Drug control policies fiscal year 2015 budget request along with your efforts to develop and coordinate our nations drug policies. The budget request submitted by the president has interesting priorities within this subcommittees jurisdiction. While the administration is requesting and increase of over 1 billion for the irs, increase over 500 million for the gsa, the administration has recommended a decrease be
Drugs, including more widespread use and emergency oepiate reversal medication and as well as expanded access to medication assisted treatment. Multiple studies show young peoples attitudes towards marijuana use and nonmedical use of Prescription Drugs are soften. Each day an estimated 4400 young people under the age of 18 initiate drug use for the first time. This can have a profound effect in the future. Since Research Shows us in earlier a person begins to use drugs, the more likely they are to develop a Substance Abuse disorder. To enable ondcp to accomplish administrations goals to at a dress these and other numerous challenges from Substance Use disorders, the perfect is suggesting 311 million for nfy 2015, this represents a decrease of 55 million from ondcps enacted budget. However it has been developed to ensure we have the resources to meet the goals while reducing spending. Ondcps budget request includes funding for two Grant Programs that support efforts throughout the natio