Organizations are sponsoring the forum. Following the life forum you can provide your input by joining the colin programs are adding your comments. The road to the white house 2016 on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. Officials from the dea, the white house and other federal agencies testified tuesday about how to stop the increase in heroine abuse and how pain relief medications have contributed to the problem. They were at a hearing at the Homeland Security committee it is one hour 15 minutes. Our nation faces a profound challenge with the growing heroine epidemic. Last year, a number of heroin deaths grew by a shocking 72 . While northwestern wisconsin suffered six overdoses in six days this february. Clearly this is a problem that does not discriminate by race or class and transcends geography. Earlier this year, the white house released the 2016 2015 Drug Overdose mortality data. The data shows that while drug deaths related to prescription opioids has remained stable since 2012
And we thought, oh my god, this is such a big hotel, we will never get 200 people. We lasted at that hotel only for a year, and we have moved from one hotel to another weve held the convention every other year in washington, d. C. And this year there are almost 1300 folks registered already. [applause] with all those conventions, weve always started in the same way, and that is having an invocation to get started on the right foot. Each of us who have not drank alcohol or use drugs today is grateful, but we remember that seldom do we take credit for that all by ourselves. And two years ago and several other times in our history, deacon ron ely has been wanting to come early in the morning to start us off on the right foot. Deacon ron, could you get started on the right foot . [applause] god bless you, paul, and thanks for the introduction. God bless all of you. Im happy to be here. I dont know how many times, but truly indeed this is a pleasure for me to be here amongst all of you as w
And shower shoes, theyre lucky if there have their roots in our residents, through the chapters kick into a fund to provide them their basic needs. If not, the house does that. A lot of times they dont even have the ability we get them in id, social and the food stamp card and prepare them for their Health Interview which will we give them a couple weeks in the house. How that happens is we have a houses that are chartered for around 12 men in there is room in there for a few extra and in that moment they can use some of those beds to keep guys moving because the house is viable. Its chartered for one number and they run that number but theres a few beds within the number that they can get people in. We work on, again, the eye dedication, food, clothes, educating them about what they are involved in and reassurance because we dont want them to admit it but we are scared. We get out, get out to the house and i see it all the time that the committee that first house and they dont want to
What to do, should we do it, we are not stopping, we are doing things all the time but at the start of a new administration there is a bit of a cycle based on change of administration, it is really great to take a fresh look at the crisis, the drug problem and what other major things we can do to address the problem so looking forward to the final report of the commission coming out in late october november, flowing the best ideas into the National Drug control strategy and try the most effective drug policies we can to help citizens across the country. [applause] let me say a word about interdiction and supply side. There is no Silver Bullet to this drug problem in this country, not one thing you can do and the problems go away, we need to do everything we can and do it better. On the supply side we need to restrict the ability of these dangerous drugs coming into the country. I have been to the southwest border. I got a chance when i saw the largest thing you put in the country, i wa
Of there was a provision that said every state to get money from the feds had to set up a Revolving Loan fund to help create self run so support recovery houses based on the oxford house and that was put in there in large part because cspan covered a hearing in 1983 members of oxford house testified about their success living in the oxford house that spread and by Fall Congress put in the provision so of course, a major part was the creation of the drugs are ended almost every convention we have had the honor of them coming in this year is no exception. Richard bomb is the acting director of the White House Office of drug control policy and teaches at georgetown and is a friend of our board. All of those together would be enough but in addition he has been the power behind the scenes in dealing with the president s task force. The al looking as looking at the open your a crisis. It has come out with a report to say lets call this an actual emergency and do some other specific things to