Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Ohio. I point also on this map here to the Cincinnati area in southern Ohio, which is one of the hot spots in 2014 that has continued to grow as a problem. We recognize this is both a local problem and a nationwide problem. I want to tell a story here. Last December, when the President was signing into law the 21st Century Cures Act, which included my legislation, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, a former State Senator from West Virginia took the stage to introduce it. David Grubb talked about his daughter, Jessie, who, herself, had been in rehab, in treatment, something like three or four times, had had several drug overdose instances and had been revived. But what happened to her also is part of what they called the loaded gun that never should have happened. She went into the hospital for some surgery, but the doctors and nurses never told her discharging doctor that she was in recovery for heroin addiction. The point we made before about the NASPA list, or the other lists there, or the 42 C.F.R., blocks information from going into the medical record. So while someone was out to protect her privacy, they didn't protect her from death. She was given a prescription of 50 opioid painkillers. Remember, I said before that when a person is given this prescription, they run the risk of relapse, overdose, or bad drug interactions.…”