americans at the very moment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'd like to ask consent to place into the record a statement by the american academy of pediatrics opposing separation of children at the border, the american psychiatric association opposing separation of children from their parents, the american psychological association regarding traumatic effects of separating families and again the national child traumatic stress network and key points on the traumatic separation of refugee children and immigrant children. i ask unanimous consent to place into the record. >> no objection, so ordered. the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky, mr. guthrie. five minutes for questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you for being here, dr. mccann. the cdc has found less than half of substance abuse disorder patients with multiple mental health issues have received dream for their mental health issue. the commission suggests -- treatment for their mental health issue. the commission suggests this is a lack of motivation to seek treatment. would you discuss how you plan to encourage states using the state targeted response opioid money to help treat patients with untreated mental health diso

that finding is echoed by the american academy of pediatrics, the american college of physicians, and the american psychiatric association. but you don't have to be a healthcare expert to know that taking a child from their parents who were seeking a better life is immoral and un-american. yet this practice continues as the trump administration is shamefully using these scared children that may endure long-term psychological and physiological damage as political pawns in a twisted game. he's quite literally taking these children just as he is doing with dreamers as hostage to push through an anti-immigrant and zenophobic agenda in congress. not one penny of taxpayer dollars should ever be used to inflict pain and suffering on a child in order to punish their parents and push a political agenda. my amendment prohibits dhs from implementing this heinous policy and calls for comprehensive reforms to protect asylum seekers and the well being of their children and loved ones. ripping families apart and keeping them in cages is not the america i want my granddaughter to grow up in. this is not the america that i know and love.

the american psychiatric association has said it will cause lasting harm to the kids. she has to go. >> we've seen this play out acutely on the u.s./mexico border. we'll be focused on the district court in california on monday when it decides whether to grant the federal government more time to reunite these kids. what's your reaction to what we've learned over the course of this week, how many more children we've thought have been separated from their parents, the fact that the federal government will use dna testing to try to reunite the children with their parents. what does that tell you about the federal government's grip on this crisis? >> not only do we have an evil policy, we have gross incompetence. that makes for a very bad mixture for kids who have been traumatized. we have kids whose parents have already been deported, how do you track those people down? then you have kids who cannot identify the parents. with every passing week this looks more and more like the functional equivalent of kidnapping by the federal government in our name. that is reprehensible

americans at this very momen moment. >> thank you mr. chairman i would also like to ask unanimous consent to place into the record a statement by the american had yet to idea psychiatric association opposing separation of children (and psychological association regarding the dramatic effects separate family and the national child traumatic stress network in those key points on that traumatic separation from refugee childre children. >> without objection so ordered your time expired the gentleman from kentucky 54 question and i thank you for being here dr. mccance-katz so the cdc found that less than half of the abuse disorder patient with multiple mental health issues ever received treatment for mental health the commission suggests this is due to lack of access and discrimination and lack of motivation to seek treatment would you describe how you plan to encourage with the state using the state targeted response opioid money to help those with untreated disorders we have a very large population with the general public who needs awareness of the services. >> thank you for that question because we are very much engaged on that issue. the state targeted response to opioid provides

the effect of a policy like this on children, whether at the academy of pediatrics, the american psychiatric association, for folks with children and individuals with disabilities, the university center on disabilities, has hhs or did hhs in the lead up to this policy or once the attorney general announced zero-toleran zero-tolerance, did you or anyone ofnc the hhs or the juste department ever consult with the american academy of pediatrics? >> first i want to share your concern. none of us want impacts on these children. none of us want the separation. we do everything we can to mitigate any impact on these children with mental health care, medical care, dental, vision, education, activities, athletics, we try to ensure as happy and safe and good as an environment for people who enexercise real compassion on them. i'm not aware of engagement with any of those particular groups and i believe our administrator has been working with or are with her psychiatric expertise. i believe that's the case. certainly our grantees are trained in and have clinician care as every child goes through mental health evalu

as lorna wings idea gained traction in the 1980s and 90s, american psychiatric association and asperger disorder to the manual of mental disorders in 1994 and they did not research asperger nazi era activities. usually when you are award and at thomas diagnosis, you are supposed to research the person you are naming a diagnosis after and the apa did not. that's why we are in the situation we are in today. this rainbow is a simplistic image of the autism spectrum that took hold in the public mind and you can see basically an iq chart. on the far left is kanner's idea of classic autism, children with greater impairments with asperger's disorder on the far right. asperger's disorder was increasingly seen as indistinguishable from high functioning autism. i hate the idea of high functioning and low functioning these terms are in common usage and the disorder was reclassified in 2013 in the dsm-v as autism spectrum disorder no longer exists as a medical diagnosis although does internationally and in this country it no longer does and socially, asperger's remains in usage. the term we apply t

. >> american psychiatric association says 5% of all children have adhd. teens in the mayamily do not have it, but mom still worries about screen time. >> i thit would be worth it, to try to cut down. >> reporter: challenging, sheys in a world that relies on e technology. yer, nbc news. >>> little theater of alexandria is the oldest award-winning theater in the washington area. and one of the few communityhe theaters in country with its own building. pretty ambitious seven-show season. and that season starts this weekend with jesus christ superstar. one of the stars of the show is here withhat audiences can expect. good morning. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for hing. >> this has become a super popular production, especially when john legend got involved in this. >> oh, yeah. >> tell me what audiences can expect when they hopefully head out to see you gus. >> t is a universally known story. a lotle of pere very aware of it. what's different and interesting is that it focuses on the people and the humans behind the figureheads we've cometoo much know. >> tell u