We encourage you to co-sponsor these important bills, and we look forward to additional bills embodying plans for prospe...
I appreciate your dedication to the safety of our coal miners.
I share that goal.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Mr. Murphy, for holding this hearing today focusing on this growing epidemic.
Prescription drug and heroin abuse has steadily increased.
if we can intervene early in pregnancy, that throughout that pregnancy we might be able to have some behavior modificati...
I have seen the tragedy first hand in West Virginia. Sadly, we have the highest mortality rate in the country.
if I am just deploying out, I am 19, 20, 21, 22, and I have chronic pain or whatever other ailments I may have, would yo...
Do you not think we should get advice from those who specialize in----
Especially, let me tell you, if you go down into the age groups, our highest unemployed age group is veterans 18 to 24.
When I first got here as a Senator, I started looking at the highest unemployment categories we have and it is our veter...
Last year the VA found that more than half a million VA patients are abusing opioids.
I am just looking for answers to serious problems and we want to work together to try to cure these problems.
I think has done a very, very good job.
I have heard some alarming stories from my constituents, and often they are prescribed one drug after another.
VA patient overdose on prescription medication is double the national average, from what our statistics have shown.
I mean, common sense, remove and replace.
I have worked to reschedule Hydrocodone, combination drugs like Vicodin, Lortab, trying to get them from three to two.
