"the word 'epidemic' is getting used a lot to describe this."
"we certainly have seen an epidemic of opioid abuse, of deaths."
"I carry Naloxone in my backpack. It is sitting behind me in a ready, injectable pen, because it is something that we can do--it is an anti-death serum."
"To have this available in a coprescribing way to family members and to patients alike and to make sure that they are trained in the utilization of this is no different than having an automatic defibri..."
"if we can have Internet access at 30,000 feet in an airplane, we should be able to have Internet access all across rural and tribal America, including New Mexico."
"Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you all for your testimony."
"Are you--I mean, are you seeing some real potential savings opportunities there?"
"There is no question that we still live in a world where, when we see physical pain, our impulse is to treat it, and unfortunately, when we see mental pain, our collective impulse often is to look in ..."
"the first step towards remedying that, a critical step, obviously, is to make sure that our health care system acts with the kind of parity that Patrick Kennedy and others fought so hard for, and is n..."
"my concern is that states are doing their best in a lot of these instances where they have been given responsibility on the environmental front"
"I want to congratulate the members who have been working on this piece of legislation for some time now."
"I imagine that there is basically a main review process that exists, and then what seems to have happened over the last few years..."