miss hulsey, will you please proceed? >> thank you chairman neal, member brady, and members of the committee for having me here today. my name is jessica hulsey, founder of the addiction policy forum, a nonprofit, working in states and communities across the country to end the stigma around addiction, to help families in crisis, and to translate the science. over the last two years, as our country has grappled with the pandemic, if addiction is worsened at historic rates. obstructions to the pandemic, or in too many cases catastrophic for our patients. we conducted an atf surge, and interviews with our patients. one shared, living through recovery in this time, of being able to be active in meetings has been disappointing. when they keep liquor stores and weed shops open, this society is so twisted. also, later this month, we are releasing a patient journey map which also understand the recovering process, and input from our patients. the project has so many findings. but, one to share with the committee, is one of the mo

graduate student, hulsey johnson was in a lecture. she says everyone in the class was moved to a safe windowless room in the basement and they stay there for about 4 hours. luckily, the game of telephone didn't go on too far and it felt like there's consistent like. >> calm information, which helped cause. i don't know. you never know if it's time to panic, but it's hope very control. she says they were checking social media to figure out what was happening. >> university officials say someone affiliated with the university issued a serious and credible threat of violence towards others at the school. it would have been sad no matter who was. >> get threatened. it's also sad for that. her son is obviously having a mental health crisis, but it's just all sad. i'm think i'm going to go home and think about how sad it all when asked for more details about the person who made the threat. uc berkeley assistant vice chancellor dan mogul off said he couldn't release any at this time. >> and there are. >> so unique and complicated privacy con

hulsey. thank you so much for being here and sharing those stories. the devastating effects of mental health problems and substance use disorders have on communities. i would wager every member of this committee has a story as well. a friend, a colleague, a loved one who we have lost. i remember when we were first working on the support act. the dangers of fentanyl were just coming into view for us in congress. now it is the number one bank killer of young adults in americans -- america. if you have a child, your biggest fear about losing them does not come from cancer or car accidents. it comes from fentanyl. it is a shocking change how quickly this has occurred. how has, since we passed the support act, how has fentanyl change the substance abuse landscape? how do we catch up to these challenges? >> i think fentanyl is driving overdose deaths and fatalities. we need to have ways to address this, to intervene sooner, to have the prevention, law enforcement strategies. it is making its way into so many communities with the devastating effects. one of

hulsey. thank you so much for being here and sharing those stories. the devastating effects of mental health problems and substance use disorders have on communities. i would wager every member of this committee has a story as well. a friend, a colleague, a loved one who we have lost. i remember when we were first working on the support act. the dangers of fentanyl were just coming into view for us in congress. now it is the number one bank killer of young adults in americans -- america. if you have a child, your biggest fear about losing them does not come from cancer or car accidents. it comes from fentanyl. it is a shocking change how quickly this has occurred. how has, since we passed the support act, how has fentanyl change the substance abuse landscape? how do we catch up to these challenges? >> i think fentanyl is driving overdose deaths and fatalities. we need to have ways to address this, to intervene sooner, to have the prevention, law enforcement strategies. it is making its way into so many communities with the devastating effects. one of

the number included lawyer, hulsey maldonado, the president of angio focused on transparency despite disturb him, but something else has even more at one of hell. so with those most famous murals, he explained to us. so this is a monumental revolution to the 1948 revolution on which put an end to a precedence termed. i wanted to stay longer in power to cling to power longer than what the term mandated at the time. and i think it's, it's very significant in terms of a symbol of how as hobbler has a long history of precedence and hats of state, trying to cling to power longer than what they were meant for. the constitution is very clear. there 5 articles from the constitution but expressly prohibit reelection presidential election. there's one that specifically says that a president can not stay longer than one day after his storm is over. right? this is very clear. and, and yet the constitutional chamber interpreted the constitution. say that only for this time, only this one time kelly can actually run hurry electra and everything before. so we'll see actual danger we've reelection b

hulsey: absolutely. the risk, genetic factors, it is not simply one thing and it is complicated, lots of genetic factors and we need to make sure that we support families that are struggling. of the 20 million people struggling with addiction today, 2 million of them have an alcohol disorder. while we are experiencing overdoses and so much difficulty in the opioid space, we need to look at the big picture. there are programs that work through services that help keep families together and gives them the treatments they need. i would love to have had something available like that for my family before i went into foster care. we need to see what works and take it to scale. >> thank you so much. i have used up all of my time. i yield back. >> lets me recognize the gentlelady from the virgin islands. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you for this hearing. i want to thank you and the staff for putting this together. you have been absolutely informative. i am grateful to members from other sides of the aisl

some flies from santa airport are allowed under the deal, and fuel imports can reach hulsey, health areas halt to the fighting, coupled with the ansi of full sheeps and the using of restrictions on the movement of people and goods in out and within the country will contribute to building trusts and creating a conductive environments to resume negotiations for a peaceful settlement of the conflicts. the tooth coincides with the start of the holy month of ramadan. it's the most important step in years towards ending a conflict that's kill tens of thousands of people and push millions into hunger. i think it's just strategic exhaustion. the yahoo! these for a long time had felt that it was just an inevitable. their success was inevitable, but they had a huge setback in morrow, which had been besieged for in all over a year. so i think that both sides kind of realised, you know, this war is not going. we want to maybe we're going to ask. so for half a tax between who these and the coalition escalated recently when a saudi oil facility was hit by who thes last week reorder struck back. some be

hulsey: absolutely. the risk, genetic factors, it is not simply one thing and it is complicated, lots of genetic factors and we need to make sure that we support families that are struggling. of the 20 million people struggling with addiction today, 2 million of them have an alcohol disorder. while we are experiencing overdoses and so much difficulty in the opioid space, we need to look at the big picture. there are programs that work through services that help keep families together and gives them the treatments they need. i would love to have had something available like that for my family before i went into foster care. we need to see what works and take it to scale. >> thank you so much. i have used up all of my time. i yield back. >> lets me recognize the gentlelady from the virgin islands. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you for this hearing. i want to thank you and the staff for putting this together. you have been absolutely informative. i am grateful to members from other sides of the aisl

graduate student, hulsey johnson was in a lecture.eryone in the class was moved to a safe windowless room in the basement and they stay there for about 4 hours. luckily, the game of telephone didn't go on too far and it felt like there's consistent like. >> calm information, which helped cause. i don't know. you never know if it's time to panic, but it's hope very control. she says they were checking social media to figure out what was happening. >> university officials say someone affiliated with the university issued a serious and credible threat of violence towards others at the school. it would have been sad no matter who was. >> get threatened. it's also sad for that. her son is obviously having a mental health crisis, but it's just all sad. i'm think i'm going to go home and think about how sad it all when asked for more details about the person who made the threat. uc berkeley assistant vice chancellor dan mogul off said he couldn't release any at this time and there are. >> so unique and complicated privacy concerns here. he s

graduate student, hulsey johnson was in a lecture. she says everyone in the class was moved to a safe windowless room in the basement and they stay there for about 4 hours. luckily, the game of telephone didn't go on too far and it felt like there's consistent like. >> calm information, which helped cause. i don't know. you never know if it's time to panic, but it's hope very control. she says they were checking social media to figure out what was happening. >> university officials say someone affiliated with the university issued a serious and credible threat of violence towards others at the school. it would have been sad no matter who was. >> getting threatened. it's also sad for that. person who's obviously having a mental health crisis. but it's just all sad. i'm think i'm going to go home and think about how sad it all when asked for more details about the person who made the threat. uc berkeley assistant vice chancellor dan mogul off said he couldn't release any at this time and there are. >> so unique and complicated privacy c

graduate student, hulsey johnson was in a lecture. she says everyone in the class was moved to a safe windowless room in the basement and they stay there for about 4 hours. luckily, the game of telephone didn't go on too far and it felt like there's consistent like. >> calm information, which helped cause. i don't know. you never know if it's time to panic, but it's hope very control. she says they were checking social media to figure out what was happening. >> university officials say someone affiliated with the university issued a serious and credible threat of violence towards others at the school. it would have been sad no matter who was. >> getting threatened. it's also sad for that. person who's obviously having a mental health crisis. but it's just all sad. i'm think i'm going to go home and think about how sad it all when asked for more details about the person who made the threat. uc berkeley assistant vice chancellor dan mogul off said he couldn't release any at this time and there are. >> so unique and complicated privacy c

hulsey: absolutely. the risk, genetic factors, it is not simply one thing and it is complicated, lots of genetic factors and we need to make sure that we support families that are struggling. of the 20 million people struggling with addiction today, 2 million of them have an alcohol disorder. while we are experiencing overdoses and so much difficulty in the opioid space, we need to look at the big picture. there are programs that work through services that help keep families together and gives them the treatments they need. i would love to have had something available like that for my family before i went into foster care. we need to see what works and take it to scale. >> thank you so much. i have used up all of my time. i yield back. >> lets me recognize the gentlelady from the virgin islands. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you for this hearing. i want to thank you and the staff for putting this together. you have been absolutely informative. i am grateful to members from other sides of the aisl