I would just strongly recommend to the administration that when the President meets with the president of Canada and Mexico, that he raises fentanyl to the highest level with them and lets them know that that is a threat to our country.

Just for the record, she is not talking about me.

In many communities there is nowhere to take them. The only place you can take them potentially is to a jail where you hope their withdrawals are managed but may not be.

There is still an extraordinary stigma associated with it as if you are a bad person who is doing a really bad thing and needs to be punished for it.

I think this has to be dealt with. There is not like one law we can pass that deals with this.

Which leads to the third problem, and that is the number of people who end up in a jail cell for 15 days, go through withdrawal, do not realize they have lost their tolerance.

Let me also say that while we were dispensing more oxycodone than the rest of the country combined out of Florida, most of that was leaving our State.

It is my sense--that very few people wake up in the morning and say I am going to go shoot heroin just for the first time.

I think it is pretty clear that if you see a heroin overdose in the U.S., that heroin or that fentanyl came from Mexico or maybe in the case of fentanyl, China through the mail.

Today his perception has changed because he has had several interactions, including this interaction with a person who, by the way, is a member of the Florida Bar, is a successful, functional attorney whose husband apparently also has a…

I have to preside over the floor and I turn into a pumpkin here.

The cartels may have misjudged the appetite, but they, no question, have flooded us with very, very cheap drugs.