Gang, let me tell you we are all in this together. That is all I can tell you.
Earlier this year I worked with Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, who is the chairman of the Homeland Security Committ...
the VA to house the children of homeless veterans in transitional housing programs.
If we could do that which we have influence over, it could basically change the direction of how we treat chronic pain.
In my little State of West Virginia, from 2007 to 2012, over 200 million pills, opioids, have been shipped to my State; ...
I am saying, we have got to go to alternative pain methods.
I am finding that the VA does not always have or offer good alternatives.
Just in my State. In a 5-year period--I only have 1.85 million people in my State.
It is the opioids, prescription of these opioids, painkillers, and I am sure you all are very much aware of it. We are b...
We use 80 percent of the opioids that are produced in the world.
This did not happen when we were youth. OK?
I have used up my time, but this is such an important topic.
We have double the mortality rate as far as opioid overdoses in military VA than the national average.
We are working on it.
With the Choice Act, are you all allowing them to find different providers, private providers, that might be able to pro...
In the last week, during the break, I returned to West Virginia and was on overload of negative information coming at us...
So if you are sitting in the kitchen with this 55-year-old that just lost his job, he has been working 30 years in a coa...
Well, but keep in mind too, Mr. Secretary, you know that coalminers average age is going to be in their 50s.
