Mike Collins: “Some of the things also we have talked about today are education and prevention. It is also looking at things that we…”

“Some of the things also we have talked about today are education and prevention. It is also looking at things that we can be a part of and do. As I have said earlier today, the things that have stuck out to me are some of the statistics that have jumped out. I mentioned the one earlier that more are dying from prescription overdoses than in car wrecks. Also, there are other practical ways that we can be a part. If you are suffering out there--and, Mr. Speaker, if there is someone who is going through this with either prescription opioid abuse or through heroin abuse and addiction--there are toolkits available. In fact, we have posted on our social media a place where people can go. It is from the Bipartisan Task Force to Combat the Heroin Epidemic. There are places where they can go to find a parent toolkit, where they can help their young children, also the young adults in their house, from middle school up through their 20s, on how we can best address some of these real issues. It was very disturbing to me recently in a magazine article that I read that someone who was addicted, not only to heroin but was going through it, made the statement--and this just shows you the concern that is here--made the general statement that they were--there was this adrenaline rush when they were getting ready to shoot the heroin--is that this may be the last time I shoot up. That was almost driving them to do that.…”