You have seen decreases in those?
Do any of you have metrics, as far as that goes, or metrics on the connection to poverty and drug abuse?
Are you going to increase your prevention and treatments efforts in Indian country?
That would be really good because, who you reach out to is going to make a difference, in terms of what the take-up rate is.
It would seem to me that poverty-stricken areas should be the focus, but is there any education being done in the schools?
If you do not have those partners, we are going to be throwing money out of the window.
When I am told that 70 to 80 percent of the kids that are born on that reservation...are born drug-addicted--holy mackerel.
We have seen a dramatic increase in overdoses among Native American tribes.
I think you can look at the tribes who have high instances of poverty--most of which are non-gaming tribes--and you can see they have issues...
There has to be some education done here on what the right line is, because this is insanity.
If you do not have enough money to deal with the dam issue, it is very unfair for us to stand up here and hammer you on dams that are ready ...