to deal with the pain, phantom pains, some of the pain is real pain. but in the patien the same thing. they are given a prescription, as you mention, to basically control the pain and manage the pain. it's called pain management. i know that as a significant other of a person who is a physician for humans, it goes the same as it goes with animals. once that pain is gone, or you feel is gone, there is still development of an addiction to what has caused that pain to go away. and so, just recently, for instance, >> armstrong williams: in other words, opioids in and of itself, becomes its own addiction. >> initially, it just taken to help you manage the pain, but now you start noticing something, there might be some other pain. but just basic, america is in pain. there is a lot of pain, and i'm not just talking about physical pain, i'm talking about emotionally. when she deal with the physical pain, now something that is taking your mind away. it's also taking your mind away, from other pain. now you're going back to a doctor asking if you get another pres

pain. children in the womb should be protected from pain also. i will always fight for the right to life and i believe we have a responsibility to defend all innocent lives. mr. allen: in fact, this is close to home i have four children -- home. i have four children. one son and three daughters. i've had to see both my wife and all of my daughters experience difficult pregnants and make difficult choices. i can't -- pregnancies and make difficult choices. i can't imagine my life without my four children and my 12 beautiful grand chifrpblt every child should be given -- grandchildren. every child should be give an chance at life. we must give a voice to these precious babies who cannot speak for themselves. our nation can and must protect the most vulnerable among us. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlelady from georgia reserves. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. conyers: madam speaker, i'm pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from california, mr. carbajal. the speaker pro tem

to endure the pain of a life-ending abortion. it is absolutely heartbreaking. my husband and i knew our lives completely changed the minimum we heard our oldest daughter's heartbeat. i will never forget that moment and we are proud of the compassion nature and generous person she has become. she was a little girl and wasn't much taller than me. we read a lot back then and we read books and the bible. but one of her favorite book was seuss' book. a person is a person no matter how small. i thought back to those first moments when i heard her heartbet and thought about cassidy as a person. i had that blessed moment with my three blessed children and each and every's baby heartbeat would be heard by parents that that gift is from our god that loves them dearly. i urge my colleagues to defend the smallest among us this week and pass h.r. 36 the pain -capable unborn child protection act. i thank you, mr. speaker and i thank the gentleman for his leadership. mr. franks: i so sincerely thank the gentlelady. mr. speaker, i would recognize

we must stop the bans and stop the pain. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentlelady from new york reserves her time. and the gentlelady from wyoming is recognized. ms. cheney: mr. speaker, i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from tennessee, mrs. blackburn. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from tennessee is recognized for one minute. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. and i think we should talk about pain on the floor today. because when you talk to physicians and ob-gyn's, they will tell you that if they are oing work, if they are doing an apple neo sin tee cis-- amniocentisis, then that baby feels a pain, that baby responds, that child in the womb. so i would encourage my colleagues, talk to dr. roe, talk to some of the ob-gyn's that serve in this chamber. because they fully understand, as we understand, that the gift of life is not something that comes through the law. that is a natural gift. that is a gift of god. and that child who is receiving that life, who is held in the wo

pain. and they attach to receptors in the spinal cord, blocking pain messages sent back to the brain.ing the civil war, doctors used opioids widely on soldiers to treat pain, but many started showing symptoms of addiction. this led doctors into a century of conservatism in prescribing opioids. but then, in 1980, a letter to the editor in the "new england journal of medicine" turned that thinking on its head. the authors looked at records for nearly 40,000 hospitalized patients. although nearly 12,000 received opioids, there were only four cases of addiction. their conclusion?" the development of addiction is rare in medical patients with no history of addiction." it was a survey of existing databases, not a rigorous peer- reviewed study, and yet it had great influence. the pendulum swung. opioid drug prescriptions increased dramatically. >> the pharmaceutical manufacturers were quite happy to promote these agents. they had a big incentive to minimize the associated risks. >> reporter: the opioid push also made it harder for patients to get reimbursement for alternatives such as biofee

but his doctor will have full access to the pain medicines. >> one more call from that line for those who have been impacted by the opioid crisis. mason, dayton, ohio, go ahead. >> that is blatantly false. it absolutely is impacting people who need these medications to survive on a daily basis. i had a severe injury with a double back fusion several times, hip replacement. i did need those medications. i had a broken foot and because i was on on existing medication, they could not give me medication to help with the break and the pain that comes along with a broken foot. also had to have oral surgery with two teeth pulled. they could not give me anything because i was already on pain medication. and to top it off, they want to drug test pain patients, right? and if you don't sign an agreement to drug testing, they will no longer give you your medicines. >> what should be the answer? >> i think what the answer is, is we need to go after the problem. that would be the drug companies themselves and how it's being prescribed, not the people who need it. the people who need it have to have

the knee replacement was very painful. is not likely i would do the surgery again to the other knee. host: west monroe, louisiana, sherry is on the line. caller: hello, how are you? host: fine, how are you? eight, i had bad surgery or nine years ago. i had a couple effusions and a couple of screws -- a couple of fusions and a couple of screws and rods. understaffed -- understep to the opioid. then i had a bad fall and had to go back and have surgery again. with more fusions. they kept the rods in. more screws. and a herniated disc to top it off. i have gotten myself down to oxycodone.rams of not the oxycontin. but the oxycodone. , in i had this last surgery had to go back up, because it was so painful. i am in much pain now. hip fracture when i fell. i have all of these fusions in my back. i am 70 years old. so, what is an alternative to this? , but i like to go down cannot hardly move. i have to pick myself up by my gown in the bid to move over -- bed to move over. my body will not move. i cannot do anything. what does a

medicine as you can so the patient will be relieved. as youuch pain medicine cancel the patient will be relieved. teaching.e in my opinion, just like the speaker said, a happy medium must be reached. a lot of patients can do very well with much less pain medication. if they have an addictive personality. i am sure. i would entirely agree. for a long time people come in for routine surgery and go home with the pain that will last for three or four days and have 30 days worth of narcotic pain refill. also a you multiply that by millions of americans across the country every year for 20 years. , and a lot ofted those drugs leak into the black market. toot of the drugs are used access by the people to whom they were prescribed. a lot of times those folks get addicted. a massive amount of prescribing has gone on for 20 plus years in this country. a lot of it is, as the doctor said, people were thinking it doesn't matter how many pills you sent home with an acute pain patient -- >> i love it. i am the vice president of economic studies at brookings and the

pain killer. we all know the importance of dealing with pain. we were having a conversation just before the hearing. one report according to collins says 25 million americans live with pain every day so this is not to minimize the number of americans who need some form of help relieving pain. i want to hear today about the public, private partnership that the national institutes of health is leading and what to do to make sure the opioids are prioritized appropriately and get -- i've heard people who have prod lucts in pain and development. i want to make sure they have guidance to review in a timely way. if traditional priority to know what the fda may need. monitoring programs. subsidies prescribed by doctors and dispensed are an important and innovative tool. i look forward to hearing how we can help states better integrate prescription drug monitoring programs with electronic health records to protect patient privacy. congress has accomplished a lot in a bipartisan way to update programs to assist states and help combat this public health cri

the painful inflammation can spread to the spine and lead to extreme oss occasion there are typical indicators. to see if i had really bad back pain mainly in the morning but also at nights so bad that i could hardly roll over in the morning there was an unusual stiffness. high morning back pain is an important indicator for the disease blood tests and inflammations i can be seen in an m.r.i. confirm the diagnosis. it means that we're dealing with spinal rheumatism and it has to be treated with medication. down immediately with modern medication we can completely block inflammation in the spine this means all the resulting functional restrictions will not progress any further. angers diagnosis came before any new bone had begun developing in her vertebrae and with medication the diseases progression has been halted for the foreseeable future. what breakfast makes you happy. with fresh fruit or a coffee and a cigarette let's take a look what a yummy and healthy breakfast looks like. these are some of the ingredients that can make a healthy and nutritional breakfast one that help stave off hunge

i know the pain within if you hours. i know the pain of this kind of crime.ing. how the victims are suffering. so this is why ijust want future generations not to suffer like that. they —— campaigning against it is important to raise the awareness that this is really important. especially in london, where i live. it is my home. sol especially in london, where i live. it is my home. so i don't really acce pt it is my home. so i don't really accept it. thank you, jabed, and theo as well. thank you forecasting at least some light on this appalling crime. the headlines: as we havejust been discussing, the home office is planning to introduce minimum six—month prison sentences for people repeatedly caught carrying acid, following a surge in attacks. the uk has joined acid, following a surge in attacks. the uk hasjoined other countries in defending the international nuclear deal with iran grow after donald trump's decision to withdraw his endorsement of the agreement. the organisers of the oscars will hold emergency talks later to discuss claims of sexual misconduc

we will endured the pain endure the pain together. may god bless and watch over all of those that protect us. may god bring healing to the families of the wounded, the and may and the fallen, god bless our great country, america. thank you very much. thank you. thank you, governor. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: also today, democrats gathered on the states of -- steps of the capitol to call for steps to prevent gun violence. there was gabrielle giffords who was issued in a 2011 shooting.

pain every day. this is not to minimize the number of americans who need some form of help relieving pain. i want to hear today about the public/private partnership that the national institutes of health is leading and what about the policies that the fda has put in place to ensure that the opioid alternatives submitted to the fda are prioritized and get the attention they ought to. i have heard from numerous skps who either submitted to the fda or who have products for pain or development. and i want to make sure they have clear guidance on when the fda will review them in a tombly way. if traditional path wes do not fit these products i would like to hear how we can provide the help fda may need. prescription monitoring programs, state run electronic databases that can help track prescribed entities are an important and innovative tool. like forward to hearing today how we can help states integrate prescription drug monitoring programs with electronic health records to help inform physicians practices while protecting patient privacy. congress has accomplished a hot in a bipartisan way to

the painful inflammation can spread to the spine and lead to extreme oss occasion there are typical indicators. to see if i had really bad back pain mainly in the morning but also at nights so bad that i could hardly roll. in the morning there was an unusual stiffness. high morning back pain is an important indicator for the disease blood tests and inflammation so i can be seen in an m.r.i. confirm the diagnosis. it means that we're dealing with spinal rheumatism and it has to be treated with medication. down immediately with modern medication we can completely block inflammation in the spine this means all the resulting functional restrictions will not progress any further. angers diagnosis came before any new bone had begun developing in her vertebrae and with medication the diseases progression has been halted for the forseeable future. what breakfast makes you happy have an x. or a yogurt with fresh fruit or a coffee and a cigarette. let's take a look at the yummy and tell things breakfast looks like. these are some of the ingredients that can make a healthy and nutritional breakfast one t

the morning. so it's not a painful way to die. ust very sad. >> reporter: but some doctors say the nationwide crackdown on pain pills has gone much too far. in west covina, california, just outside l.a., pain specialist dr. forest tennant says patients are now flying in to see him from all over the country, like gary snook of montana. tennent says small fraction of pain patients, about 3 to 5 %, have rare chronic conditions, like snook, and need high doses of opioids to function but can't get them elsewhere. >> there's no question about it. the pendulum has swung too far. >> reporter: after reviewing details on kaiser permanente's program, tennant had some praise for its depth and general approach. but he said there's still a very good chance that the type of patients he sees most frequently would be left behind. >> it takes a lot of work to treat these people. it takes a special clinic, special time, and i hate to say it, but i'm afraid a lot of parties just don't want to treat these folks. >> reporter: but for chronic pain patien

pain. i understand the need for medicine. but in '96, when pain became a sense, and in my opinion, we let the genie out of the bottle. we started treating it like it was something that can be treated like a cold or the flu. all we do is mask it. we have seen stronger and stronger drugs coming out. we have seen them become controlled substance, narcotics that we send home simply in a bottle with prescription and say that's controlled. now, we've seen an epidemic spread from the middle class to the low class to the wealthy and to our mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters and co-workers. when do we put the genie back in the bottle? how do we continue to allow drugs, addictive drugs, continue to be sent home with our loved ones? the highest percentage of death of accidental opioid deaths are mothers, middle-aged women. most of them got addicted to them after birth or elective surgery. how is that possible? how do we let it continue to move down that path and not say that we have to do something bold about this? when it's co

we all know the importance of finding a way to deal with pain. we were having a conversation just before the hearing. one report according to "the new york times" says about a third of americans have intermittent pain. dr. collins says that 25 million americans live with pain every day. so this is not to minimize the number of americans who need some form of help relieving pain. i want to hear today about the public private partnership that the national institutes of health is leading and what about the policies the fda put in place to make sure the opioid alternatives submitted to fda get the attention they ought to. i've heard from numerous companies that have either submitted to the fda or have products for pain and development. i want to make sure they have clear guidance on what is necessary for fda is review them in a timely way. if breakthrough path ways do not fit the products, i'd like to hear how we can provide the help fda may need. prescription drug monitoring programs, state-run electronic databases that control substances dispensed a

pain. and i understand the need for medicine. but in '96 when pain became a sense, and in my opinion, we let the genie out of the bottle. we started treating it like we treat the cold or the flu and all we do is mask it. we have seen stronger and stronger drugs coming out, we have controlled substances, narcotics that we send home in a bottle with a prescription and say that's controlled. now we have seen it spread to the middle class, to our brothers and our sisters and our co-workers. when do we put the genie back in the bottle. how can we allow addictive drugs continue to be sent home with our loved ones? the highest percentage of deaths, opiod deaths, are mothers, middle aged women. most of them got addicted to them after birth or an elective surgery. how is that possible? how do we let it continue to move down that path and not say that weav to do something bold about this? when it's a controlled substance, why do we allow it to go home? wouldn't that be better treated in the hospital. we talk about a lot of remedies, but we

death blow for the chronic pain market here. now you have the company going abroad, reprising its greatest hits from the 1990's. they released a study in colombia's and we believe more than 40% of the population suffers from chronic pain. amy: in may, dozen members of commerce in a bipartisan letter to the world health organization that warned the sackler-owned drug companies were preparing to flood foreign countries with legal narcotics. the letter mentions the sacklers by name and notes they own purdue pharma, and reads -- "purdue began the opioid crisis that has devastated american communities. today mundipharma is using many of the same deceptive and reckless practices to sell oxycontin abroad." mundipharma is owned by the sacklers, and d "the l.a. times" reporting the company circulated a press release in colombia that suggested 47% of the population suffered from chronic pain. your final comment on all of this, christopher glazek, where it goes now? >> the big question is complicity. it is a tricky question. implicitversit

pain after surgery. they would come into the e.r. with a sprained ankle and expect to have no pain and the demand for narcotics went up and up. somewhere in the early 2000s, something was introduced called a pain scale. they called dethe fifth vital sign. it's fraenl the worst thing i have ever seen introduced in my medical career, where they suddenly described the amount of pain they had, which was very subjective, and beyond that, it basically became part of a measure of how good of medicine you were practicing, even tied to your reimbursement. suddenly, patients were getting double and triple the medications, and then in the post operative floor, rart than getting percocet every six hours, they were getting them four hours, and the pumps increased doses. we almost doubled the amount of narcotics people were getting in the hospital, and then they wanted twice the amount to go home with as well. so physicians were faced with this struggle of saying i don't think you need this much, but patients becoming more and more in control of ho

i find it find it painful, the policy won't work. policy won't work. i find it painful that other families will be hit. that's the painfulness of it. the mail is our last story, the town that saves itself. yes, this is a town that where people got together and actually volunteered to try and replicate some of the services. it's a town in the yorkshire dales, obviously like a lot of local authority areas they lost their services and are struggling to fund them. volunteers were able to keep them. volunteers were able to keep them going. the post office, the garage, the bus, the library. really heart—warming story. people think that in newspapers we like bad news is good news, but we do find a story that's as uplifting as that we like to give its much space as we can. is it heart—warming? to give its much space as we can. is it heart-warming? it is and it shows what civil society can do when the state isn't always the answer. obviously public services are important but civil society as well, can also come together and put together a goo

brain so there's less focus on the pain. >> the areas that light upt up less and they're not processing as much. >> reporter: he uses a game called snow world. patients hit targets with snowballs taking their minds off their procedures. >> overall we're seeing, you know, 35% reductions in pain is pretty typical where you see somebody's pain drop from severe to moderate. >> reporter: if patients like kevin any relief from the pain can help on the road to recovery. chris martinez, cbs news, seattle. >> coming up on cbs this morning, a tour of denmark where rainy days match the number of sunny ones but it's still among the happiest countries in the world. this is the cbs morning news. psoriatic arthritis tries to get in my way? ♪ watch me. ♪ i've tried lots of things for my joint pain. now? watch me. ♪ think i'd give up showing these guys how it's done? please. real people with active psoriatic arthritis are changing the way they fight it... they're moving forward with cosentyx®. it's a different kind of targeted biologic. it's proven to help people find

i know the pain, what happens to me. nybody else in the future to cry on the street like me. 0thers future to cry on the street like me. others like this woman and her cousin have suffered life altering facial burns. and today, the home secretary promised she would change the law. acid attacks are absolutely revolting. you have all seen the pictures of victims that never fully recover. endless surgeries. lives ruined. so, today, iam also announcing the prevention of sales of acid to people under the age of 18. as well as that complete bantu people under the age of 18, it will be illegal for anyone to carry them without good reasonban to. and people would need a licence to buy buy one of the most dangerous liquids, sulphuric acid. victims are scared that young people will still get them. they can get them from the kitchen, anywhere. they can get it from somebody else. so it is not going to help like that. the rising numbers in the uk, especially in london, has made it one of the worst countries in the world for acid attack

i know the pain, what happened to me. uture to cry on the street like me. others like this woman and her cousin have suffered life—altering facial burns. and today, the home secretary promised she would change the law. acid attacks are absolutely revolting. you have all seen the pictures of victims that never fully recover. endless surgeries, lives ruined. so, today, i am also announcing the prevention of sales of acid to people under the age of 18. as well as a complete ban to under—18s, it will be illegal for anyone to carry them without good reason. and people would need a licence to buy buy one of the most dangerous liquids, sulphuric acid. victims are scared that young people will still get them. the rising numbers in the uk, especially in london, has made it one of the worst countries in the world for acid attacks. some rules on selling corrosive substances were relaxed just two years ago. daniel sandford, bbc news. you're watching bbc news. the headlines: catalonia could declare independence from spain within days.

we will indoor the pain together the pain together and overcome together as americans. may god bless and watch over those who protect us. may god bring healing to the families of the wounded, the injured, and the fallen. and may god bless our great country, america. thank you very much. thank you governor. you.

they are the middlemen that ship the pain pills from manufacturers, like purdue pharma and johnson & son to drug stores all over the country. rannazzisi accuses the distributors of fueling the opioid epidemic by turning a blind eye to pain pills being diverted to illicit use. >> rannazzisi: this is an industry that allowed millions and millions of drugs to go into bad pharmacies and doctors offices, that distributed them out to people who had no legitimate need for those drugs. >> whitaker: who are these distributors? >> rannazzisi: the three largest distributors are cardinal health, mckesson, and amerisourcebergen. they control probably 85% or 90% of the drugs going downstream. >> whitaker: you know the implication of what you're saying, that these big companies knew that they were pumping drugs into american communities that were killing people. >> rannazzisi: that's not an implication, that's a fact. that's exactly what they did. >> whitaker: in the late 1990s, opioids like oxycodone and hydrocodone became a routine medical treatment for chronic pain. drug companies assured doctors

and the real pain does not kick in until you start to heal and the condition resolves itself and the nerve pain begins to creep in and you start to realize, i can still feel my body but now it hurts. i don't know if you have ever had frostbite, but it is a pretty bad condition, imagine your whole body feels like that, pins and needles and it does not stop. and then of course if you have joint problems with shoulder rotation and all of those things, all the exercises and pushing the chair and those kind of things. brian: what did happen to you physically? sherman: the spinal cord injury itself was incomplete. that is hard to explain for people who don't understand what that means, but you have a complete injury where the spinal cord is completely severed, and you have incomplete where it has been damaged, but not severed. that causes a paralysis, because of the celll death. the cells don't get oxygen so they die. that makes it permanent, but only partially. so even though the injury happened here -- you had christopher reeve lose just about everything. he had a complete spinal cord inj

for the first few days kristi had to have pain medicine too. my in-laws stayed with us for the week. stayed up through the night, did the laundry and helps with homework while taking care of gunner. i still had my radio show to do in the evening. i stayed up till midnight to give gunnar his first dose of medicine doing as much work as i could including writing this. every time i wake gunnar up, he screams and fights for close to 20 minutes. he will spit out the medicine multiple times and we go through multiple shirts and he will wear down and submit. not sure there is a better analogy to god than to know that i'm dad to paraphrase the scripture. what my kids do not see is maced dagan up wiping tears out of my eyes. it hurts to me my wife and kids and pain. gunner's screams are so terrible he cannot talk, holds his throat with his hands and tries to cover his ears with his elbows. i knew the doctor said his ears would hurt, had no idea how badly it would hurt. people are trying to sterilize themselves from pain like this. they want to shield the

the pain is just the uncertainty, anxiety, fear. the real pain does not kick in until you start to heal and the condition resolves itself and the nerve pain begins to creep then and you start to realize, i can still feel my body but now it hurts. i don't know if you have ever badfrostbite it is pretty condition, imagine your whole body feels like that, and the pins and needles and it does not stop. if you have joint problems with shoulder rotation and all of those things, all the exercises and pushing the chair and those kind of things. brian: what did happen to you physically? sherman: the spinal cord injury itself was incomplete. that is hard to explain for people who don't understand what that means, but you have a complete injury where the spinal cord is completely severed, and you have incomplete where it has been damaged but not severed. , becausees a paralysis there is sell that, they don't get oxygen, and that makes it permanent, but only partially. even though an energy -- an injury happened here. you had christopher reeve

, acute pain say someone in a burn unit. theof pain they are experiencing when they have to have their dressings changed decreases when they are playing a videogame. there is hypnosis and therapy and meditation. we are literally throwing the kitchen sink at trying to bring this down. charlie: this is something the government has to get involved in because of the scale. a commission, we have declared an emergency for the past three months. this is on a scale -- we're talking about bigger than the crisis in puerto rico, than any -- the crisis we face with these storms. this is a national problem that needs national solutions. when he to figure out what works and how to deploy it. charlie: what did you find in new mexico? hari: what is interesting about them, the health services community saw this problem 10 years ago. at that point, they figured it was already running for 10 years and so because they had that head start, they were able to get the practices at work and see how they could stop this. has in new mexico, which needle e

this is a time to allow ourselves to feel the pain and know that we can feel the pain and we are comeollars by our communities, by our brothers and sisters together, to not go numb. may we have the strength to feel the pain, to be comforted and may we have the strength to go forward in action to do the things necessary to prevent this from happening again. >> allow yourself to feel. pastor? >> let us pray: creator we ask now for peace. we ask now for violence to sees. we ask now for humans to see one another, for who they are, as your creation, god give us peace, give us sanity, give us love. amen. >> amen. >> how do you explain this to your foulers. >> to my followers and even to my children, i mean, i have three children, and my daughter asked me this morning, daddy, why do people kill? and it reminds me of this question of the odyssey, if there is a perfectly good god, then why is there so much evil in the worlds? and the reality is that we don't fully know. i mean, there is a big issue around mental health that we really have to begin to deal with. there are other issues that are

. >> the cubs were better team. >> growing pains. part of the growing process. >> i think they're cursed. >> a lot of mistakes. >> 9:09 is the time. the other big story this morning, new fallout over obamacare. in surprise move the trump on a threat to cut off cost sharing payments to insurance companies. it could could have major impact on insurance markets with open enrollment just few weeks away. melanie alnwick is live at the white house with mr. on this story. mel? >> reporter: good morning, guys. three and five people who buy their individual insurance plans from health care.gov they depend

we felt the pain before. we feel the pain today. but we go forward together, and we go forward stronger than ever. we're not going to win. and if we change our lives, we contort ourselves to them, then they win, and we lose. we'll go about our business. again, there's no ongoing threat. there's no evidence of that at this time. so there's no reason to have any undo anxiety. you will see more security forces, but that's only because it's an abundance of caution. not a signal of anything else. and there will be some continued investigation, and justice will be done. but to those who lost, they're in our thoughts and prayers. to the first responders, thank you, thank you. you put your life on the line every day. you do it better than anyone else. and to new yorkers and live your life and don't let them change us or deter us in any manner, shape, or form. thank you. >> thanks governor cuomo. thank you mr. mayor. as i said, i'm going to go through the chronology here. we're not going to go too deep into it, it's only two hours. after i g

collins, what are the additional avenues for research on pain management? drugs are not the only way to manage pain yet insurance companies seem to drive payment towards prescriptions rather than other methods that maybe in the short term more expensive but in the long term may keep you off these dangerous drugs. what are the additional avenues we need to do to help give doctors and potentially insurance companies different ways to manage pain other than the drug? >> that's a great question. i think the pain clinics we used to have 20 years ago were multi-modality efforts to try to provide opportunities for people with chronic, significant pain ways to manage their pain gave a much better opportunity for something other than an opioid prescription to be the answer. those pain clinics are harder to find now. because they weren't particularly well compensated for doctors trying to figure out the opt optimum approach. we do know for people with chronic pain, if you work through this carefully, there are in many cases cognitive behavioral therapy. chiropractors

instead we want to numb the pain first and that's where we're missing it. host: in terms of the older population, "the hill" reports one in three beneficiaries in medicare's beneficiary program received a prescription for opioids in 2016. that's from "the hill." arlington, virginia, next up and this is michelle, republican line. caller: yes, hi. thank you for taking my call. i just like to say i really appreciated the first lady and also the president's leadership and the compassion that they've shown in making this known as a public health crisis all across our nation. i really appreciate the president's action-oriented approach. he looks at this like a corporate c.e.o. it's a problem we need to solve and not just gloss over and bring it out into the open. recognizing the problem publicly. again, making sure it's brought out into the light of day. and not shaming people. and showing the true compassion in realizing that people get hooked to drugs not of their own fault. they're given prescription, you know, it's the number one cause of death for americans u

, and the definition of pain today -- i have to remind myself to breathe. sit looking at the door waiting for him to walk in. i beg god all day to give me my son back. in closing i just want everybody to know that daily i see the pain my husband, sons and daughter-in-laws go to, and it's an internal pain so great it has reached the core of their souls and has taken up residence. think about the soldiers and their families. say a prayer for us and continue to support them, because we need support right now. >> we hear you. we hear you, mrs. murphy, and mr. murphy. you could not have communicated better the heartbreak that families like you experience after the loss of your son, and obviously we do want to help you remember his legacy. we will put up more pictures of him and just please let us know how we can help you. we understand how great your pain is and how great the pain is of the johnson family today. we celebrate you guys and we thank you. thank you so much. the u.s. needs to develop more renewable and clean energy resources because there are limits t

he should endure the pain because it was good for you. the end of the civil war, letterman made anesthesia available and ordered people to use it. >> nursing was a man's job in the civil war outnumbering the women 3 to 1. poet walt whitman did some of his best writing while serving as an army nurse. 2,000 women from the north and south did volunteer and improve camp conditions. civil war is the scene of the first woman to receive the medal of honor. what did she get it for? >> a civilian working for the army medical department. the medal of honor only medal in the civil war so what did she did? nobody made a record. >> her name was mary walker and at 30 she was hired as a contract surgeon for the union army and wore men's clothing on the field. some believe she also worked as a spy and earned her four months in a confederate prison. >> the dispatches that come back say she served valiantly. the controversy, if you will, is she was not really in the army. and there's always been a tension about awarding civilians medals. even if they do he

so the response and the pain have come from the local level and you're seeing us all here experience the pain that's so powerful in our own communities and families that we know. >> while i have you, i do want to ask you about the "washington post" investigation about that bill that you co-sponsored. the allegation basically being that the bill was passed over objections from the drug enforcement agency. and it's led to what's called a pill dumping in rural areas, especially these drug suppliers are pumping millions of opioids, usually in pill form, millions of these very small, very rural communities. why did you co-sponsor that bill? >> well, we had the dea and -- yesterday, and they had their own data that showed, in fact, the immediate suspension orders that was the topic of that report had actually gone down for several years before that bill passed. so unless the effect of the bill preceded the passage of the bill, it's still a question whether it's cause and effect. the real reason those of us who sponsored it or were behind it, it went through hearings in both the house and s

the kitchen. it is exciting to treat headache pain. and there is a possibility to help the patients in their different forms of headaches experts distinguish between one hundred eighty varieties and patients tell us that something is like hammering some things drilling into the head. so it can be quite challenging to find the right expert. three million people in germany are plagued daily by stabbing pounding throbbing headache. but what are headaches exactly. stress causes a kind of short circuit in the brain neuro transmitting chemicals are released the trigger an inflammatory reaction in the arteries of the brain lining or meningeal tissue. there are many types of headaches but migraines are the worst baba her linden suffered for decades from migraines they badly affected her life. and i felt like i was seriously ill and in trouble i felt desperate. wife it a few years ago she started going to the pain center at the fiber do university hospital headache therapy there begins with a search for causes that if you knew it was her when st