Promoting Mental Health for College Students

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Mr. McCORMICK. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the legislation efforts that we have had recently to define fentanyl as poison and to address a very serious problem in the United States where we had 110,000 people die last year alone.

As an emergency medicine physician, to see anywhere from one to five overdoses per night, to see four patients come in that I could not revive and that are no longer with us is a serious problem.

I caution everybody in Congress--from my conservative roots and the conservative values that made this Nation what it is--not to turn to legislation to solve this problem. We need to understand that this is a people problem.

Ultimately, you can spend a trillion dollars overseas, you can fight wars, you can secure your border, but until we get our hearts straight, we will not solve this very real problem.

Until we understand that when our children are taught that they are supporting murderers and rapists and child traffickers, people who would do harm to all of us, then they will stop the incentive of creating the demand, and the problem will go away.

This is a problem of our house but not this House, the house of our family.

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