Doctors are handing it out like candy, and we've changed that from Schedule 3 to Schedule 2 and opiates.
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Two million Americans are addicted to prescription opiates. An estimated 6.5 million Americans currently abuse some sort of prescription drug.
In 2007, West Virginia, our state, became part of the rural health care pilot program.
Everything in that green there shows over half of our state qualifies for underserved, and we're not getting services.
For a small State like ours. Again, the leadership issue. At the Clarksburg VA in Clarksburg, West Virginia, it has unfortunately lagged behind as one of the top people who have had the biggest wait times, and it just had a leadership…
Making this change really helps veterans across the country, and certainly in my State.
We are not talking about it. We are not doing anything about it.
It is the number 1 killer in my State. It comes out of the medicine cabinet.
The opiate road is horrific, not just in the VA, but all through society.
There have to be alternatives, and I know you must see it with all of the women you are dealing with.
We are addicting a generation of our veterans, I do not think intentionally.
I have a tremendous problem in the State of West Virginia is prescription drug abuse.
While the nationwide veteran homeless rate has dropped by 33 percent since 2010, we still have nearly 50,000 veterans without a home.
The VA is committed to ending veteran homelessness by 2015.
I am deeply concerned that the lack of unity of government and deteriorating situation in Libya has created a safe haven for militias and terrorist organization.
I fully support the President's proposed AUMF to counter the Islamic State of Iraq in Levant, or ISIL.
We want to make sure that we are able to do the job you need for our country, and we need somebody to help rattle the cages with us.