"We have an opioid crisis that is killing 70 to 80 thousand people a year in this country. That's way more than the wars kill us."
"As soon as the opioid crisis really penetrated the suburbs and the white community, suddenly we look at it as a public health issue."
"Everyone has a fentel story...we've all lost someone or know someone who's lost someone."
"Every community in America... it's a man-made crisis."
"It's a crisis that starts at the southern border... no more families have to grieve the loss of a loved one to this drug."
"This case was the first to bring criminal charges against the most senior executives of a publicly traded pharma company for their role in the opioid epidemic."
"In 2007, there was a feeling of vindication in Appalachia when a court fined Purdue more than six hundred million dollars for deception."
"The opioid crisis has actually caused life expectancy within the country to decrease over the last few years."
"A single pharmacy in a West Virginia town of Kermit, a little town of less than 400 people, received shipments of roughly nine million pain pills."
"It’s not a coincidence that a lot of the research I found while studying this topic was about how we’re failing to address the opioid crisis in the same way the 'just say no' campaign failed."
"If anyone wants to see the face of what opioid addiction does, you're looking at it, this is a horrible, horrible disease."
"Cannabis can help the opioid crisis... using a less harmful substance, to me that's like a huge win."
"There's something so insidious about opioids and how they get in people's wiring."
"Opioids now kill more Americans than guns or breast cancer."
"Welcome to the story of how billionaires and doctors became the drug dealers that caused an epidemic."
"We clearly had an over prescribing an overuse issue and I think that that led to this high addict population that we had."
"The opioid crisis is one example of how lobbying by wealthy companies has clashed with the interests of the electorate."
"We passed historic legislation to combat the opioid crisis."
"Purdue comes in big Pharma they hire all these marketers to go out and pitch their drugs that are non-addictive FDA approves on this and and you know pushes all these doctors to now start prescribing to Billy Billy's The Varsity High School."
"Fentanyl deaths have been doubling each year since 2017."
"It's very painful, but one of the statistics I saw him talk about was the fact that America has only 4.4% of the world's population, only 4.4%, yet 31% of all opioid deaths that we have around the world is from us."
"Data shows a 25% reduction in opioid overdose fatalities."
"America's fight against the opioid crisis drug distributors are expected to agree to a multi-billion dollar settlement this week."
"Hundreds of thousands of our young men... being killed every single few years from fentanyl overdoses."
"Under my leadership we have marshaled the full power of government in our fight to end the opioid epidemic."
"Every 36 hours, someone dies from a heroin or opioid drug overdose in King County."
"Collaborative efforts on matters like the opioid crisis and international conflicts underscore the shared responsibility that comes with Global Leadership."
"For years the corporate cartels dumped 100 billion opioid pills into America from a period of 2006 through 2014."
"It makes me so angry what's happened in this country because the opioid epidemic was a disease of capitalism run amok."
"The most important steps to ending the opioid crisis is to prevent young people from ever using drugs in the first place."
"The u.s. political leadership was willing to tolerate it... you have a bunch of people who used to work decent paying jobs who are out of work they get on painkiller medications that are over prescribed."
"100,000 a year, all right, and some statistics say 100 people a day are dying over these opioids."
"Our country is pilled out on pills, obese, and mental health and opioid overdoses is two of the reasons that our life expectancy is going backwards."
"i'd like to move some of singapore's results into the united states they have practically no deaths from opioids"
"150 people across the US die every day from overdoses related to synthetic opioids like fentanyl."
"It turns out that one in four patients prescribed an opioid for a bonafide pain condition will develop an opioid use problem."
"Every eight minutes in our United States, somebody dies from an overdose, an opioid overdose. It's not a joke, you know?"
"Fentanyl is killing more Texans than ever before."
"The Cara of 2016 raised the total number of patients a prescriber can have for the purposes of dispensing buprenorphine from 30 to 100 patients per year."
"...there's an epidemic on pain in this country and that's why we're introducing the oxes have you ever seen the 200s yeah of course it's a great show it it is it's pretty freaky dude we're introducing the oxy 3000 yeah they call them oxy coffins"
"I lost my very brilliant witty overachieving son to opioids almost five years ago."
"Opioid use is being totally redefined in this country."
"Bystander administration of naloxone saves lives."
"It's fascinating to talk with him just because, you know, for a long time, they prescribed opioids like candy too."
"In a perfect world, had everyone listened to what NIDA was saying in '91, what all you guys were saying back in '91, we would have had a very different and much less damaging opioid epidemic in the last 20 years."
"Our current opioid crisis will not resolve without wholesale accessibility of medication-assisted treatment and evaluating the potential of psychedelic drugs."
"It's so exciting when we think about the potential for CBD to be used to help with the opioid crisis."
"One of the main contributors to the opioid epidemic has actually been charged federally and will have to pay billions of dollars towards opioid treatment and abatement programs."
"We have boldly tackled the opioid crisis."
"As states legalized medical cannabis, we see drops in physicians prescribing opioids and drops in opioid overdoses."
"We're proud of all we've done to combat the opioid epidemic."
"It's important to educate doctors about the dangers of overscribing opioids."
"Secured six billion dollars in new funding to fight the opioid epidemic."