Political Quotes

“my colleague from Maryland spoke earlier about the opioid crisis and the fact that we are about to vote on legislation tonight that is called the Opioid Crisis Response Act. He talked a little about some of the innovations going on in the State of Maryland. We are fortunate, in my home State of Ohio, to have some great work going on as well. Like the Stabilization Centers he talked about, we now have in Ohio the opportunity for people who are treated for addiction to be given this miracle drug, Narcan, which reverses the effects of the overdose. They are able to not just go to an emergency room, where they can be taken care of for this reversal of the overdose, but also get into treatment. The Maryhaven Addiction Stabilization Center in Columbus, OH, has become a model not just for Ohio but for the country. It is one of the early centers where they are taking some of the Federal funds we passed here and using them to come up with innovative ways to get people into treatment. Their success rate is over 80 percent. Unfortunately, that is not true with regard to other instances where someone is given this Narcan--usually by a first responder or in an emergency room setting-- then does not go into treatment but rather goes back to the environment and the old community or the gang where the addiction happened in the first place. In so many instances, first responders are called again, and sometimes again and again, to provide that Narcan to the same individual.…”