most departments are carrying naloxon. it's been a phenomenal tool for us.de from the overdose issue, our offices are making more vehicle stops, they're arresting people, sometimes they're arresting people who are resistant. in some cases, who are throwing drug evidence into the air which creates heightened risks. excuting search warrants, handling this on a day-to-day basis. i think you see law enforcement reaching out to people who have overdose, even following up, contacting the person, contacting their family. with we do drug interventions with people we believe who are recently addicted or have come to our attention. and we do that kind of corrective work. we are in and around this stuff all the time. just fentanyl that is out there. that's the bad news. the good news is incidental skin contact should not cause a fatal result. there are common sense, mitigating recommendations in the video that i think police officers, firefighters, and medics will take two hearts -- -- take to heart. between common sense, risk based on what science has shown us, and re

in my state, most departments carry naloxone. it has been a phenomenal tool for us. our officers are making motor vehicle stops. they arrest people. sometimes people who resist. in some cases, -- in some cases, they throw drugs in the air. we have law enforcement reaching out to people who overdose. we do follow-ups. we contact their family. we do that proactive work. we are in and around this stuff all the time. it is not just the fentanyl that is out there, but also the emerging risk from analogs. as you saw, incidental skin contact should not cause a fatal result. there is common sense recommendations that we saw in the video. i think the real value is what science has shown us and recommendations for first responder safety that is straightforward. >> i am the general president of the international association of firefighters. representing professional firefighters across the united states. over 3400 local unions in 10,000 cities and towns. our concern is, in fact, to my colleague here to my right, fire and the paramedics we represent are often times the first on

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naloxone prices, i was at assistant secretary for health hhs at a finance committee in april. i asked her to give me an explanation for the locks and delivery device and price increases. according to you, cms, medicare part b is seeing produces units on over 500% between 2015 and 2016. this is calais a pharmacy -- pharma. total spending in 2016 of over $40 million. that could pay for a lot of those audits. i asked them to formally seek an explanation for these price increases. are you aware, since april, if there has been any outreach to pelayo since april, regarding the price increase for the locks on? >> i can't speak specifically for my department. none of the things we are concerned about is making sure we have transparency around all of these increases. it is one of the things we took action on earlier this year is to put out our drug dashboard, which divides transparency to the american public about the year-over-year increases in drug pricing. we think it is important people have that information. >> do you agree that secretary ades would have the ability to negotiate d

where they are rationing the life-saving drug naloxone and people are dying, because the doctors say we just don't have enough. he now says he has gotten some money from the federal government. it's great, but what should we have done in the meantime? this is why we have a rainy day fund. if this were a natural disaster, we would have used it right away. then you sue the pharmaceutical company. and win back the funds. you hold them responsible. they are not finding my campaign like they are fighting it. -- funding my campaign like they are his. i have no problem taking on these companies and suing them and making them pay for the pain and the havoc they have wreaked in our state. gov. hogan: when i was running for governor, four years ago, as i traveled around the state, i went to every single community, and everywhere i went, i said what is the number one problem facing your community? they said heroin and opioids. it surprised me, quite rightly. -- frankly. we promised, when i was elected, i promised we would focus on this problem because it had not been focused on before. people w

since 2017, the arkansas naloxone project is training more than 3,300 first responders to administer the drug. this evident has saved at least 142 lives. the program continues to grow. it's working. other states can replicate the success we have seen in arkansas by using grant funds to train first responders. not only does this legislation help those already impacted by the crisis, it also aims to stop even more dangerous drugs, drugs like fentanyl from getting into the country in the first place by improving detection of prohibited drugs being illegally imported through the mail. these provisions are just a small piece of the puzzle. together with other measures in this bill, we can make a real difference and change the conversations we have around opioid abuse and addiction to focus not on the lives taken but on the lives that are being saved. the comprehensive response to this crisis shows -- the comprehensive response to the crisis shows how committed we are as a nation to combating opioid addiction. i applaud the u.s. department of agriculture with this week's announcement of it

general put out the first advisory for a surgeon general in about a dozen years, and it was about naloxoneis is the overdose-reversing drug. he wants more americans to be able to carry it around like you would an epipen. >> i just want to get back to -- from where i sit, usually reporting from europe and around the world, some of the stuff that's come out in the bob woodward book and in previous accounts of this white house and this presidency -- people are kind of concerned. they don't know how to adjust and adapt for the trump factor. they see him sometimes denigrating and pouring cold water over global alliances and the hard work of diplomacy and negotiations and tending to cozy up -- that's my word -- to more traditional adversaries. then, they also see, well, the president may say something and tweet something, but the government -- the administration, congress -- are actually taking traditional foreign-policy, you know, positions. do you buy that? i mean, is this administration doing traditional foreign policy while president trump, nonetheless, says what he wants to say about things

airlifted to the hospital.nats ...he survived.in june, n-h-p troopers started carrying narcan -- or naloxonet possible heroin or opioid overdoses.sgt. wayne dice, nevada highway patrol: "it's amazing what something like this can do to the human body to kind of bring somebody back."without the narcan, dice says he thinks the man would have died.natsthe sergeant says he happened to be in the right place, at the right time. sgt. wayne dice, nevada highway patrol: "he has a mom and dad, he's probably got a brother and sister. i'm just glad i was able to help him out. he might be going through a bad phase in his life, but i'm glad i was there to help him." sheriff's department found and destroyed more than five - thousand marijuana plants... worth more than two- point- five million dollars.. it happened during a two day raid this week. the plants were confiscated from illegal cultivation sites in santa barbara county.. no suspects have been arrested, however, deputies did find a sick puppy which is currently being cared for by county animal services. (catherine) there's new evidence that parts of

in addition, they distribute the naloxone. and this tells us that when more folks affected by the opioid crisis can pay for their services through medicaid versus no insurance, health centers can provide more and better treatment to other folks as well. so, my question is, how would you describe the role of medicaid in treating individuals that suffer from opioid addiction and what can we do to make that even stronger? >> so, generally, i would say that across the board, with all of cms' programs, whether it's medicare or medicaid or exchange programs, having access to coverage increases individuals' ability to access treatment, and we certainly acknowledge the important role that community health centers play in serving our safety net populations. we appreciate their efforts. >> so, you see medicaid as a positive resource for individuals who are suffering from opioid addiction? >> it can be. >> it can be? how can it be? why would it be a negative? >> i think there's been some concerns that have been raised in terms of, you kn

amendment to the opioid legislation to authorize the trump administration to negotiate the price of naloxone, the life-saving opioid overdose reversal drug, whose prices sored by 700%. and -- soared by 700%. and big pharma, with the help from the majority leader, sought to hitch a ride on this very same opioid legislation to get an unrelated $4 billion gift. it is enough to make you gag and hopefully we got that stopped. passage of this bill today is one modest step that we can take but so much more is needed. that this bill even counts as progress demonstrates how far we have to go. and while this bill brings some transparency to the pharmacy counter, the transparency which is most needed is comprehensive legislation, like the transparency drug pricing act that i introduced, to shed some light on where the prices get set and that's by the manufacture who hides the whole process through discounts, rebates, and fees. now, we all know that president trump solved the problem with his rose garden press conference early in the summer. he announced that prices are going down, but i've yet to find

aware of since april if there has been any outreach since april regarding the price increase for naloxone? >> i can't speak specifically, not necessarily from my department, but one of the things we are concerned about is making sure we have transparency around all of these increases. it's one of the things we took action on earlier this year, to put out our drug dashboard, which provides transparency to the american public about the year-over-year increases in drug pricing. we think that's important people have that information. >> do you agree that secretary azar would have the ability to negotiate directly to reduce part d spending if he so chooses? >> generally what we want to do and our strategy around drug prices is something we're very concerned about. there's a lot of effort going on. one of the things we want to do is strengthen competition and negotiation. we think negotiation is important. you know, that's why we have our part d plans essentially in that role, negotiating on our behalf. what we want to do is strengthen their negotiating position. one of the things that we recen

they reported that some received a drug -- naloxone which is used to treat an overdose. the reporters were able to confirm it was fentanyl-laced heroin that sent those workers to the hospitals. reporters talked to one corrections officer who told them we were trying to keep up with everything. it was a form of controlled chaos. the journalists at the gazette did what everyday reporters in this country do, what good reporters do in a rapidly unfolding incident like this one. they talked to witnesses, they reached out to the institutions involved, they established a hotline, they tracked down a pair of 9/11 calls tracing at 8:45 on wednesday. they didn't stop there. they published multiple follow-up stories, they found the institution had a history of high drug use. they tracked down the most recent prison report. they found that ross correctional led the state in positive random drug tests in 2015. like so much good reporting, these stories were a team effort among journalists at the gazette. mr. president, i happened to be at the gazette that morning around the time this