Well, we are grateful you are here too.

So if you had just one or two lessons that you would like for Congress to take away from the experiences that you have had, what would they be?

I am not sure there is a Federal legislative solution to that, but it is useful information.

So what Dr. Snyder in his professional medical judgment is telling us is that there are tens of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries who are simply routinely having their addiction satisfied by ongoing prescriptions of opioids, and we are…

Congress recently dedicated an unprecedented $4.6 billion to combat the opioid crisis in fiscal year 2018.

I just want to thank you for having the courage to be here today and share this experience.

We need to prevent that.

It does look like we may have turned a corner, but it certainly seems that we still have a long way to go.

Today's opioid and heroin epidemic is no different. Sadly, this is not the first time even our own Nation has found itself in the depths of a public health crisis.

It is important to make sure that funding reaches the places where it is needed the most through the programs that will be the most effective.

No explanation of the possible risk of addiction or anything like that?

If mental health parity is ever going to really exist for patient care, we need to somehow address that.