. >> thank you very much, howard koh and gil kerlikowske for all the work you have done in helping to shape this initiative and to lead at and thank you to all of our colleagues and partners who are here today for your important work and for the month of hard work and collaboration you put into helping to make this national prescription drug abuse action plan a reality. it is very exciting to be participating today and the one to wonderscored the importance of government coming together in this way working with stakeholders on the outside to put together an action plan that addresseses key issues and lays out steps that we all must take working together to make a real and enduring difference in addressing this important problem for our nation and i am delighted to show fda's support for the administration's initiative and to share our new public health effort in this area. a physician and public health official about the serious problems of misuse, abuse, illegal diversion and inappropriate prescribing and to outline important action we are taking to enhance the appropriate management

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order online at c-span.org/shop. " newsmakers" is gil kerlikowske. thank you for being with us. news of this past week -- the biggest problem in terms of drugs, not illegal drugs, but prescription drugs. are their pockets in the country where you see a higher rate of this due to the economy? >> we do get more pockets, as you said, but i am not sure it is related to the economy. quite often, when i talk to people affected by prescription drugs, it was perhaps because of an industry -- an injury in the mining industry. that would rollover into addiction. >> why are doctors providing these kinds of drugs to these people? >> there are good reasons. the medical profession came to the conclusion they were under treating pain. that was probably quite true. the pendulum has swung the other way now and the number of prescriptions being written for -- the difficulty around a medical community is in the fact they do not actually have as much information in training and education about addiction, pain education about addiction, pain