dr. compton. we welcome dr. melinda, the medical officer for the division of pharmacological therapies, center for bans treatment at the mental heating services administration, samsa. she is a physician board certified in family medicine with additional credentialing in addiction. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. thank you. samsa is supporting a new round to improve access to high quality medication assisted treatment and has funds to dedicate to overdose prevention with meloxone thanks to the budget you worked so hard to pass. i want to thank you for setting aside this block of time to gather more information about treatment options for opioid use disorder. i came away from the first forum a few weeks ago with the urge ept need i felt from the members of attendance or ready out of the box direction for what could be applied to help your constituents and our communities right now. so i'm going to try to be concrete and not be too high level or repeat too much what dr. compton has already

dr. compton and dr. pierce because we have an issue in this country with every single thing you are talking about with opiates, overprescribing, and the like of suicide and accidental overdose, potential overdose, with veterans. some of us sit on the v.a. committee and i am in the andest in northern indiana andy is on the east coast, but the unbelievable issues that have arisen with the overprescribing of veterans drugs is the front line looks like i have veterans come in my office of all ages. butjust young veterans, senior citizen age be at facing a lot of the same chronic problems. they are coming in with boxes. and they will have psycho tropics, opiates, you name it in there in a friday of different taxes and bottles. times withn often their spouse literally begging and crying for help. they do not know what to do. my first question is, i have a -- a bille firing -- we are trying. together to start controlling this in association with the dea. what do we do to turn this fossett off as quickly as poss

dr. compton and dr. pierce because we have an issue in this country with every single thing you are talking about with opiates, overprescribing, and the like of suicide and accidental overdose, potential overdose, with veterans. some of us sit on the v.a. committee and i am in the midwest in northern indiana and andy is on the east coast, but the unbelievable issues that have arisen with the overprescribing of veterans drugs is the front line looks like i have veterans come in my office of all ages. not just young veterans, but senior citizen age be at facing a lot of the same chronic problems. they are coming in with boxes. and they will have psycho tropics, opiates, you name it in there in a friday of different taxes and bottles. they come in often times with their spouse literally begging and crying for help. they do not know what to do. my first question is, i have a filing to putre more accountability into the v.a. system. our job comes the issue to put together pieces to control this in association

dr. compton. we welcome dr. melinda who currently serves as the medical officer for the division of pharmacologic therapies, centers for substance abuse treatment at the substance abuse mental health service administration, samhsa. she's board certified in family medicine with additional credentialing in addiction medicine. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. before i get down to the business of my presentation, i want to take a moment to thank you. samhsa is supporting a new round of grants to states to improve access to high quality medication ased treatment and has funds to dedicate to overdose prevention where naloxone. similarly i want to than you for setting aside this block of time to gather more information about treatment options for opioid use disorder. i can't even begin to fathom the number of equally critical issues you're faced with and that demand your attention. i came away from the first forum a few weeks ago really deeply impressed with the urgent need that i felt from the

dr. wilson compton. dr. compton is providing valuable scientific leadership developing and managing the institute's research portfolio to improve our understanding of their results. i would like to recognize dr. compton. dr. compton: thank you very much. seeing such a great turnout for this issue that has devastated so many communities. this has been such a major impact in so many parts of our country. i applaud you for the task force to address these issues in a proactive way. i am glad i have my slides. through theseo very quickly but i will leave them with you and if there any questions, please let us know. the most important information is on this first slide. it reminds us of the tremendous number of deaths associated with drugs of abuse in general, the deathslers over 19,000 from 2014 and 10,000 deaths from heroine. i will point out that even the surveillance data has some messiness. how debtook at certificates are coded, there are a lot that are coded as drug overdose generally and don't specify whethe

dr. compton and dr. campopiano and dr. peirce to iorm us as members and those interested in this epidemic. i would like to thank the cochair of the bipartisan task force to combat the heroin epidemic, congresswoman kuster and the members of the task force now 50 members of congress. this is a clearly growing concern across the nation. more and more members are understanding the concern, not just from what we're accomplishing here in washington, but from their constituents as well. i think we have learned a whole host of new ways that we can help the prescription side of this particular issue and as we continue to look at legislation and how we can help at a federal level, to integrate what we're trying to do with the stop abuse act we may call upon you to help us in that challenge. i also see one of the key significant components is eliminating the stigmatism. i have gone through this many my life because i have a family member with mental illness, and the stigma is just as bad as with substance abuse and it's something we

dr. compton.ose were dramatic slides and i hope we get a chance to get them up and share with the voters and folks across the country so people understand the urgency and understand the steps we can take within the next six months to make a difference in their lives. >> thank you. i would like to yield myself two minutes as well. first, i would like to thank dr. campopiano, dr. compton, and dr. peirce for taking the time to inform us as members and interested in the epidemic. i would like to thank the cochair of the task force, congresswoman kuster, as well as had members of the taskforce. -- task force. more and more members are thankfully understanding the concern, not just from what we are accomplishing here in washington, but from their voters as well. i think we learned a whole host of new ways we can help the prescription side of this particular issue. as we continue to look at legislation, and how we can help at the federal level to integrate what we trying to do with the stop abuse act, we

dr. compton. those i h were dramatic slides i hope we get those up and share those with our constituents and people across the country so people understanding urgency anh they understand there are steps we can take and we'll take in next six months to help people's lives around thank you for being here. >> i wouldwoul like to yield two minutes to myself as well. i would like to thank dr. compton, dr. campop-iano and dr. pierce as well. i would like to thank thethe co-chair of the bipartisan tack force, congresswoman cues sistem and members of the tack force, 50 members of congress. more and more members thankfully are understanding the concern not just from what we're accomplishing here in washington but from their constituents as well. i think we learned a whole host of new ways we help the prescription side of this particular issue. as we continue to look at legislation and how we can help at a federal level to integrate what we're trying to do with the stop abuse act we may call upon you to hel

dr. compton and the other dr. for taking time to inform ss members and those interested -- us as members and is interested. and the cochair of the bipartisan task force. my colleague from new hampshire. as well as members of the task force and 50 numbers of congress. this is clearly a growing concern across nation, more and more members are understanding that concern not just from what we are, she year in washington, but from there can issuance. i think we have learned a whole host of new ways that we can help the prescription side of this particular issue. as we continue to look at legislation and how we can help at a federal level to integrate what we are trying to do with the stop abuse act. we may call upon you to help us and that challenge. i also see one of the key significant components is limiting the stigmatism. lifee gone to this and my because i have a family member who has a mental illness. the stigmatism that is still associated with mental illness is just as bad as substance abuse. it is something th

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