Jack Conway: “We need to stop them.”

About 80 percent of the crime according to law enforcement and prosecutors is fueled by the abuse and the insidious addiction to prescription painkillers.

This committee is about dealing with waste, and I would suggest to you, as Mr. Bishop did earlier, that if you can't make this--I mean, this is embarrassingly low as a standard, and if you can't make these standards, then you shouldn't be…

This issue knows no party. It is an American tragedy.

Prescription pill abuse is a reality that has touched the lives of just about every Kentucky family.