mr. rannazzisi, one last question to you. this committee has been investigating technologies that come out. can you speak briefly about future technologies you may be exploring like this on tracking drugs? >> ma'am, i can't take that question for the record. i'm not an expert. >> we will be submitting questions to you for the record. mr. butterfield, did you have -- >> i have one. >> all right. i'll yield to you for five minutes. >> thank you. under the careful supervision of a doctor prescription drugs can alleviate severe pain or help those suffers from mental disorders like depression, insomnia or attention deficit d disorder 0. unfortunately, there are true stories of these drugs being prescribed inappropriate ly or not for their intended use. only 54% of physicians ask about prescription drug abuse when taking a patient's medical history. and only 55% regularly contact the patient's previous doctor before preskribing controlled pain medicat question, state entities certify and regulate both doctors and pharmacists. throu

mr. rannazzisi, for mentioning my support of your takeback days, but 995,000 pounds of drugs in three days. the question i want to ask each of you if you care to comment or weigh in, who is paying for those pills? are we paying for them in the form of health care premiums? are we paying for them through diversion out of medicare part "d" and medicaid? who is paying for all of those pills? why are there 995,000 pounds of extra pills being turned back in? what is the overall toll in health care in our country just from this problem? anybody? >> i can tell you from are our local takeback days, these are good, solid citizens who are coming in with brown paper bags filled with prescriptions that they've had and they're concerned because they know you cannot flush prescription drugs down your toilet and they don't know what to do with them and they don't want their grandkids to get hold of them. when i speak to people i say no one ever wants to believe it's their kids so i say your kids' friends can get into your medicine cabinets. so people -- it's our citizens and a lot of them are getting the