mr. quinones. "dreamland" and "factory men" are the two best works of reporting i have read in the last few years. we have had witnesses here, and i have asked them the questions -- could we set a goal addiction free by 2030? i am mindful of your point that there is no so verbally, but i am also mindful if you do not have a target to organize on the move,ll be we will rebuild these economies and enable them to protect themselves. if you do not set the target, you do not marshal your resources around meeting the target. if you were to advise us about what the target would be -- again, i pose the question to these folks, could we set a target of addiction free by 2030, and francis collins and scott gottlieb said that is doable if you define it the right way and it is doable within the current scientific knowledge and technologically likely new term future, but if you were to give us a target, what would you tell us? mr. quinones: if i were to give you a target, we would all be in trouble. i would say

mr. quinones. you will have ten ten minutes o give her testimony and then senators looking forward to having a conversation with you. [inaudible] >> there we go. clearly i'm a rookie here. chairman alexander, senator murray and honorable members of this committee. i'd like to thank you for the sins of a epidemic of opioid addiction and for allowing me the honor of addressing you. i'm very happy to be with my wife and daughter who are part of producing united states and without whom the book could never have been finished jerk this is the deadliest drug scourge with known in this country hating aeries of the country that have never seen this kind of drug problem. it is the first in modern america to be spread not by mafias, not by street dealers but by doctors, overprescribing pain pills convinced they were doing right by their patients. urged on by the pharmaceutical industry, by the medical establishment and, indeed, urged on by us, by american health consumers who too often wanted to, a quick and

mr. sam quinones. you have 10 minutes to give your testimony and then the senate is a look at both to have a conversation with you. >> there we go. clearly i'm a rookie here so à chairman, senator murray and honorable members of this committee. i would like to thank you for these hearings on our national epidemic of opioid addiction. and for allowing the honor of addressing you. i'm very happy to be here with my wife and daughter. for part of producing dreamland. and without him the book could never have been finished. this is the deadliest drug scourge lived on in this country. hitting areas of the country that have never seen this kind of drug problem. it is the first in modern america to be spread not by mafias, not by street dealers but by doctors. overprescribing pain pills convince they were doing right by their patients. urged on by the pharmaceutical industry.by the medical establishment and indeed urged on by us. by american health consumers who too often wanted to quit into tranquilizers coul

mr. sam quinones.you have 10 minutes to give your testimony and then the senate is a look at both to have a conversation with you. >> there we go. clearly i'm a rookie here so à chairman, senator murray and honorable members of this committee. i would like to thank you for these hearings on our national epidemic of opioid addiction. and for allowing the honor of addressing you. i'm very happy to be here with my wife and daughter. for part of producing dreamland. and without him the book could never have been finished. this is the deadliest drug scourge lived on in this country. hitting areas of the country that have never seen this kind of drug problem. it is the first in modern america to be spread not by mafias, not by street dealers but by doctors. overprescribing pain pills convince they were doing right by their patients. urged on by the pharmaceutical industry.by the medical establishment and indeed urged on by us. by american health consumers who too often wanted to quit into tranquilizers could

mr. sam quinones, thank you for being here and thank you for writing this book.you came to indiana to visit with us last week. i would like to discuss our children. thousands of children across my state and really around the country are having our lives turned upside down. on account of this epidemic. not because they're addicts per se. but because they are being removed from their home. their parents have become addicted. they are overwhelmed in an already overwhelmed foster care system. if identified in his book the need for more services for families. can you elaborate on what specifically, what sort of needs there are for families or resources in your experience that might help mitigate this crisis. >> well, i think honestly, as a reporter i like to say that probably the best to talk to people that work in that field. one of the areas that has been devastating is foster care. my goodness, there's so much need now. the word for grandparents in america today, it would be -- just, mind boggling to think with the needed b. searcy, so many kids are living with the

mr. sam quinones, thank you for your >> i wanted to start with some ofh the reality is that i see y states like pennsylvania we had last year 4,624 overdose deaths. obviously a lot of that being driven by the opioid crisis epidemic. whaty.at i see is if i missed se of your testimony going back and forth between the hearings if i seemin pennsylvania is a where there was an ad hoc group of people coming together of the mayor of the small town and police chief and the treatment professionals needing overtime to. but i keep hearingng is we need more resources. we are getting our arms around this. they've made some strides as you know. what is your sense of the way the federal government can provide more resources. to watch the task force committees sprout up and county after county. yes, these folks are coming together and there's a bunch of people on the committee recovering addicts, a lot of different folks.lo we can't find the money for the nuts and bolts that make it work like office space, that kind of stuff that is essential. thank you but do not think that they are overprescribing and c