ms. lisa girion. >> i want to introduce the rest of the panel.we are lucky this evening to have a diverse group for so many aspects of this problem. jill horwitz is a scholar at ucla that has done quite a bit of research in the opioid epidemic and efforts to fix it. sam quinones a fantastic journalist i work fo worked fore paper has written many books as put in the amazing chronicle of this epidemic called dreamland and if you have not read it i highly recommend it. it is a fabulous and touching and tragic book. doctor larissa mooney runs and addiction clinic at ucla and helps doctors learn how to cope with some of the victims of the epidemic and has done research into some medication responses to. he has seen quite a bit of the risky and dangerous side of the problem and has endeavored to try to attack it from that and. i will start off by saying i first began looking at the opioid epidemic as a prescription drug epidemic in 2010. i joined some colleagues at the paper and began looking at the problem. over the last 15 years more than 200,000 peo