Senate Special Committee on Aging Chairman Scott Issues Opening Statement at Hearing on Opioid Epidemic
March 18, 2025
March 18, 2025
WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. Rick Scott, R-Florida, chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, released the following opening statement, from a Feb. 26, 2025, hearing entitled "Combating the Opioid Epidemic":
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"Over the last decade, we have lost hundreds of thousands of American lives to drug overdoses.
It's happening in every community, across every state. None of us have been spared from the carnage left by this crisis.
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"Over the last decade, we have lost hundreds of thousands of American lives to drug overdoses.
It's happening in every community, across every state. None of us have been spared from the carnage left by this crisis.