kenny, keith and charles minister, and dede workman and larry. speaker: michael lion for california alliance for retired americans and great panthers. we strongly urge that you pass this legislation onto the full board of supervisors. speaking from a senior perspective, medication errors after heart attacks and strokes are the biggest cause of admission to emergency rooms throughout the state. this is largely because our medications change often. when we go to the hospital, we're offered new medication in addition to the ones we were regularly taking. those come home with us and clutter up our medicine cabinets. paradox, another effect of the epidemic of opioids abuse is that for people with chronic pain, it's becoming harder for them to be able to get pain medication and i don't have statistics but i have stories of friends of mine, so anything that can be done to reduce this would be good. as far as the opposition from big farma i'm amazed they're willing to show up in san francisco. their outrageous profits and their high prices caused million