week nav ago, we heard president trump speak about it on national television. last night, on ktvu, there was a little segment about state suing pharma, so we know it's there. and here's some of the metrics str statistics: every 16 minutes, there can be a death due to overdose from these medications. it's very expensive: 78.5 billion. i think this was, if i'm not mistaken, 2013. most of the expenses are because the treatment is so expensive and going up. and 4.5 million americans, piage already alluded to that number. and here's a big number: the u.s. consumes 80% of the opioids, so... the next slide, what i wanted to do is on the left, we see there's some other statistics. we already covered those. i want to first go over the opioid utilization for the city plan. we've got some data there. this is for january through september 2017. the plan paid $113,000. that was actually down dramatically from the same period 2016. now i attribute that a lot to the programs we have in place. there's a huge awareness out there, too. we're working with physicians, so what we'r