"Thank you, Chairman Tonko. I wanted to focus on the environmental justice title of the CLEAN Future Act, and just a few examples."
"Substance use disorder is complex but treatable."
"I commend the administration for taking an evidence-based public health approach to the drug epidemic."
"Millions of lives depend on it."
"We must approach the substance use epidemic as a public health crisis and take the lead on destigmatizing effective treatments."
"I want to applaud the bold approach in that to reducing overdose deaths and the urgency in which you intend to act."
"So Congress can help us, you know, expand awareness about the importance of medical training and nurse--nursing training on addiction."
"This committee has a long history of working on a bipartisan basis to combat the threat of opioids and substance use and misuse."
"The statistics are alarming."
"I mean, it is just--I think the ranking member, Mrs. Rodgers, you know, talked about, you know, this essentially double dose of problems between the pandemic and the opioid abuse and misuse."
"We have to approach this substance use epidemic as a public health crisis."