The response of the Administration and Congress has been woefully inadequate.
I've often said that, at 68, I've been seeing this drug problem a long time.
Do all of you agree that the majority of Americans who have a disorder are not getting the treatment that they need?
He said, 'How am I going to get there?'
I mean, and I guess that's one of the good things about the flexibility of the CARE Act.
We need the funding to actually then be able to expand the graduate medical education fellowships.
I am concerned, very concerned that we are experiencing the single highest rates of overdose deaths in the history of ou...
I think this committee has to come to grips with what the strategy should be, and enact one.
we're going to continue the battle
What would happen in West Virginia if the Medicaid expansion were rolled back?
I'm going to push very hard on this.
This is a very significant problem that's been going on a long time.
the stigma around substance use disorder is pervasive in our society. And I think all of us need to re-set our thinking ...
If you have overcome addiction, you have done the hardest thing that a human being will ever have to do.
We have to be aware of this dynamic in medicine, and make sure that the physician gets to make the call.
Narcan saves lives, and we need to use it, and we need to distribute it.
We have not come here just to speak for those who have died. We've come to speak for the living and the dead.
I support this CARE Act to help heal our communities and give the actual funding that's needed to address substance use ...
