You've heard my thoughts about the Government-sponsored promotion of what I've characterized as addiction maintenance.
This is our Nation's single biggest public health concern.
We need to tear down Federal policy and funding barriers that keep us from treating both simultaneously.
We must do better, and we have much work to do.
The numbers indicate we are failing as a Nation, and we darn well better come to terms with that.
Now, I don't believe in better living through dependency.
If we do not reverse the current trend, where is this going to end?
Look, I want to thank you. As I said last time, too, you know, if this was about a single airplane crash, this room woul...
Are we fighting heroin or not? I'm really frustrated with this, so I really--give me some more guidance on plan one.
I look forward to hearing from Dr. Frank and others about how the Affordable Care Act is transforming the landscape for ...
I also want to use today's hearing as an opportunity to hear from these Federal agencies about the implementation of the...
But we have had more people die in the last year from drug overdose deaths than the combination of every airplane crash ...
I don't want to see another statistic of 44,000 more people die of overdose.
This will mean that millions of people will have access to the tools they need to break their addictions.
Thank you so much for your valuable input.
We can and must do more to help patients in need and to maintain our Nation's role as the biomedical innovation capital ...
While increasing accountability, this legislation would invest in the basic research so critical to equipping our Nation...
I strongly hope that giving HHS this authority would help to ensure that our healthcare system can sustain the treatment...
