deadliest drug crisis in this country s history. every year the number of deaths rises. in 2017, 72,000 americans died from ods and the vast majority of those were caused by some sort of opioid drug. there are a lot of causes of this epidemic, declining job prospects of the working class. the collapse of marriage and families. the suffocating loneliness generated by modern life. good old fashioned greed and moral turpitude from big business played a role, too. one of the key drugs behind the opioid tragedy is called oxycontin. it is a powerful and effective prescription pain killer. it s been a miracle for many cancer patients. it s alsoy very addictive. thousands of americans have received prescriptions for oxycontin after surgery or for chronic pain and wound up addicted to it since oxycontin s release in 1996, 200,000 americans have died 1 of overdoses linked to prescription pain killers. that for perspective is p
plans for the last resting place. how 43rd president george h.w. bush will be memorialized by the nation he served. new this morning, president trump back at the white house just about two hours ago after returning from the g20 summit in argentina. his final act there a trade truce with chinese president xi jinping. the trump administration has agreed not to raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of chinese goods. those tariffs will remain at 10% but the u.s. is threatening to raise them to 25% if a new trade agreement is not reached in 90 days. in return, china has agreed to buy more energy and agricultural products from the u.s. beijing will designate the opioid drug as fentanyl as a skroe controlled substance. president trump says he will consider signing a two week waiver on the budget.
would started out one clay county drug and about 100 feet you have anderson hometown pharmacy and about 25 feet have you got another pharmacy dale hollow pharmacy. how do you feel about the d.e.a. coming to your drugstore this morning kind of suspecting that you are dispensing more opioids than you should be? i really have no comment. but can you explain why so much traffic in this little town? why four big drugstores? no, sir. there is no comment. the four of them actually are very high prescribers or dispensers of the opioid drug that we re looking at de laud did morphine and oxycodone. how is it they justify 1.3 million pills dispensed in a community where there is 1500 people in the town, 5,000 in the entire county? that s why we are here. we want to find out why the high prescribing of four pharmacies a stone s throw
health care market as they do any other industry. that s the point. it s not about giving or taking it s about the point they re being mandated a way and that s the point is that people should buy what they want and what is appropriate for themselves or their family. right now, where do the essential health benefits stand? part of this bill? my understanding part of this bill. just the follow-up on mara s question, i think part of the inherit question is a lot of people buying insurance not knowing what they re going to need. i think if you re an older man you can generally say you re not going to need maternity care. that s possible, but here is the question she was suggesting opioid drug insurance you don t buy that because you say i think i m going to get addicted to opioid pain killer or drugs so