Patrick J. Kennedy

It is not working. That is what you essentially have said.

there are hundreds of thousands of my fellows in America who are dying because their medical system does not know they have an underlying addiction because it doesn't show in the EMR that they have been treated for addiction.

when mental health gets 0.04 percent of the CARES Act funding, it says a lot about where mental health is in this country.

And until there is that same urgency towards enforcing, and until there is that same money backing up our words that these are really equal illnesses, we are really still in denial as a Nation.

Even though they disagreed, they were always searching for ways to put their country ahead of their party.

Hearings like this one are a positive step forward, but we know that they are not enough and we know that there are conflicting messages coming out of this administration.

Is it enough to provide law enforcement with more Narcan only to erode essential health benefits that would guarantee treatment after a life has been saved?

Are we doing enough to combat an opioid epidemic that is tearing families apart every single day? I think that despite best efforts of many across government legislative branch and others the answer is an emphatic no.

This is critical to ensure that mistakes such as what tragically happened to Jessie never happen again.

cutting Medicaid by $800 billion, would that strengthen or hinder those services?

President Trump rightly called it the 'Crisis Next Door,' and earlier this week, rolled out an ambitious plan.

It isn't enough to offer local governments a one time funding boost on one hand and then just turn around and cut Medicaid, the single largest payer of behavioral health services in the country by $800 billion with the other.