I think that the justice system and criminal system together is starting to see a need for help rather than sentencing.
We need the care like diabetes, where for life, you are getting looked at.
the supplier is not always a drug cartel many miles away. Sometimes it is a medicine cabinet that has been left with unu...
the pathway to the tragedy and epidemic that we are seeing right now... demands that we work together and form those sol...
We had a chance to talk between our formal meetings, just about how this impacts everybody...
I want to first thank Senator Baldwin for making this a very nice bipartisan effort and getting us a little bit closer h...
Senator Johnson's released a bill that will eliminate the pain scale, effectively.
it costs somewhere between $30,000 and $50,000 per year to incarcerate somebody.
Is there any danger to having that in the general population? Is there any abuse of that drug?
when you hear the other--I do not know what the exact stats are, but one in 20, one in ten. I mean, that is part of the ...
we obviously need to put a huge exclamation point behind these new guidelines.
We need the same thing. I can assure you, Senator, that when the pilot is over, we will make sure that naloxone is at ev...
the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants (JAG) program keeps shrinking.
Resources need to come too. Because all of the treatment programs in the world unfunded will not provide the care and su...
Another area of Federal legislative reform that was useful is the area of reform for prescriptive practices within the V...
Is it because of lack of professionals to staff them or lack of local resources, State resources, national resources to ...
It cannot just be another Federal mandate like, you got to do this and it needs to come from underneath within the healt...
So, that is the wisdom of the legislation.
