01/11/2016
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"There is growing awareness that the long-term prescription of opioids to manage chronic pain can have severe and sometimes tragic consequences."
"We need to make sure that people have access to treatment, to lifelong recovery, and, of course, we need to support our law enforcement."
"We need to change the incentives to try to keep people in that program."
"I want to also commend you on your leadership on the heroin crisis, and just remind my colleagues that we have a co-chaired bipartisan task force to combat the heroin epidemic in particularly rural ec..."