Elijah Cummings: “I, too, support this amendment. I want to thank Mr. Lynch for his leadership. OxyContin is something that we have taken…”

“I, too, support this amendment. I want to thank Mr. Lynch for his leadership. OxyContin is something that we have taken a look at, and we realize that it has had, as Mr. Lynch has described, just all kinds of damaging effects. I think that the good thing is that this gives us an opportunity to get more information about it, because I think it is almost impossible to truly make good policy unless you have an adequate amount of information. So I think this will be helpful to our subcommittee as we move forward in trying to address this issue. The interesting thing that we note is it seems as if from time to time, and depending on the area in the country, certain drugs seem to become the drug of the time. And so what we are constantly trying to do is make sure that we have every bit of detail that we possibly can so that we can create the kind of policies to effectively counter the abuse of certain drugs. So, again, I applaud Mr. Lynch. Thank you for bringing this to us. I thank you for yielding me time.”