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Welcome back everyone. Thank you for filling this room up to the walls.
I'm Steve Pasierb, from the Partnership at Drugfree.org, great to be back up here and I have a
great honor
uh... you know they say that you can always tell a New Yorker, but...
you can't really tell them much.
Ummm...
I will tell you without reservation
that we new yorkers have the greatest mayor in america, bar none, and america
has a fearless
innovative
relentless
forward-thinking leader
on popular issues on public health issues in mike bloomberg. this is really
a peerless individual
You know, now i referred to him as a leader i think you'll agree that the word
leadership tends to get in way over used in our culture these days everything is
leader everything is leadership
so for four refresher course in leadership i'd suggest when you get back home you
go out you try to find somebody
who is proving it time and time again in the business world
and then maybe you want to go out and find a person who's done it in the
political arena and in public service
then maybe go out and find someone who's done it through the power of their own
personal philanthropy, using their resources to make other people's lives
better
or you can save yourself a whole lot of time
and you can look to michael bloomberg
throughout his career to this very day
Mike bloomberghas lived and exemplified all of these things. You know him
As founder of bloomberg lp
the world's largest and leading financial news and information company
have more than three hundred thousand subscribers more than thirteen thousand
employees
in one hundred and eighty five locations around the world
bloomberg news is one of the world's leading and most trusted information
sources they bloomberg tv bloomberg radio bloomberg dot com bloomberg
business week magazine
which called us to be resolved for the president of lumber business week
really dissident needs a leader in the business world an exemplar
now is our marriage since two thousand into he has done things in in lead to
success is i think a lot a hardened new yorkers never would have predicted uh...
hundreds of bolden innovative programs that at the bottom line
have made new york their place to work
a better place to live and probably most importantly a better place to raise a
family i'll carry this printout over here from the other day this is in the
new york times last week says all right along with new york
and it is the omg commemorating the ten th anniversary of smoke three new york
an initiative that mayor bloomberg new york city council transformed
we all love tom freidy's present asian degrees cdc data but i think one of the
most remarkable numbers that will get thrown out at this conference of
remarkable numbers is that since mayor bloomberg socal office
life expectancy in new york city is now twenty nine months longer
wow that is really really incredible
dolomite bloomberg's parents instilled in him that one of the things you need
to do in this life is give back and works with the peace certainly has done
that they have donated to come to worthy causes more than to point four
billion that dollars during their tenure in last year he donated three hundred
and thirty million dollars to organizations
personally i'm never going to be thankful for the bloomberg
administration they took our side when we watch the medicine abuse project back
in september
the grand central terminal and i hope to measure
tom farley heart everyone in the bloomberg administration has been
wonderful as you know the partnerships home is new york city and he's been a
leader on this issue in our city both helping the public understand the
behavior of using medicine and very importantly getting out of the medical
community to help them understand their role in this epidemic in in saving lives
so without any further ado idea to admire the great city of new york
mike bloomberg
packet
we very much
very much plans do you think you for that overdone uh...
but i loved it
and i love the story about you can tell america but not much
i would use that uh... probably without attribution i'm wishing listen just
played raisa
uh... let me start out by saying there's somebody here who is really making the
big difference in this world than i do
and that i've been lucky enough to work with the mail for a while and that is
the chairman
how rogers and his lovely wife sent via dhl puts up with him
uh... made as certain of the appropriations committee in my house he
really has uh... nor miss amount of power to decide what things we have to
focus on what things we don't
and this is a guy who was a doer and understands that
uh... we're here to help people and he's done a great job in his state but now
he's doing it on national scale i just think he deserves a real round of
applause
it's wonderful to be a rifle down this morning
uh... orlando and new york city orbit ah... and i uh... friendly competition
for the title of america's most popular tourist destination
i will not mention which city won the last two years in a row
uh... but uh... both cities do have a lot to offer a offer orlando has the
little mermaid and we have been making cowboy in new york city
orlando has lady in the *** and we have lady gaga
and we both have famous boardwalks fall of cultural characters so so while there
it's great to be here i hope you all your chances so the bizarre that's in
new york city
you'll have a blast and we can definitely use the tax revenues
um... let me uh... command uh... for start the organizers of this important
summer
uh... make it is uh... a very important thing we appreciate everything that
people like hell and they're all the people who work in this problem are
doing
um... this is work that could not be more important we have a problem in this
country that is growing everyday
and uh... maynard many americans don't
know about it until it tragically construct their family
prescription drug abuse is often thought of as a suburban problem
but the truth is whether it is in rural kentucky or a big city like new york
were all facing the same problem
and harm them a spike in the abuse of prescription pain killers
and doctor tom friedman tom
uh... use huntress posted in atlanta working for the same
time freedom the uh... director of the centers for disease control and
prevention and before that
the person that i appointed to run new york city's health department
and he really deserves an awful lot of the credit for our smoking cessation
work if he is called this a national public health crisis
and i think tom would agree it's also a public safety crisis as well
and we saw that last week uh... in new york city patsy and federal law
enforcement officials and made nearly fifty arrests and sees more than thirty
weapons
as they broke up two major drug rings that had put half a million powerful
pain killers on the black market
so this morning i what i wanted to do was just briefly sketch and the
dimensions
of this crisis in new york city and also described the steps that we had taken
the air
or about to take to address this particular problem
fifteen months ago i appointed an interdisciplinary task force on
prescription painkiller abuse
the task force includes representatives from the worlds of public health
health care and law enforcement
uh... my experience has always been that uh... in both the public and private
sectors
uh... something that uh... if you can't measure it you can't manage it
and so our task force began its work by trying to get a really full accurate and
clear picture of this problem
and it is a very sobering problem in fact when you look at some of you here
may have
seen a detailed presentation yesterday of the representatives of the uh... by
representatives of our task force i will repeat now all but it's worth repeating
that one of the task force key findings more than a quarter million residents in
new york city report either misusing the uh... hope you are a pain killers that
have been described that prescribe to them or abusing painkillers that happen
then prescribe to them in either case that behavior is a very serious health
uh... risk and uh... the test was found that
lots of people are dying because of that their report showed the beating two
thousand and four and two thousand and ten
the number of painkiller related emergency room visits in our city
increased by a hundred and forty three percent
between old five and eleven
unintentional overdose deaths involving the hope you're right
and other g six in our city increase by sixty five percent even as overall drug
overdoses in our city declined
and in fact during two thousand eleven
fatal pain killing overdoses occurred at a rate of more than one every other day
so it's clear that pain killers are causing an awful lot of pain and
certainly also an awful lot of deaths
this is by any definition truly a crisis and it's a crisis is growing mama's both
public health and public safety dimensions as i said
want not only to painkiller addiction does painkiller addiction threaten the
health and the safety of those who abuse these drugs
it can also produced criminal behavior ranging from medicaid fraud to hold
upset neighborhood pharmacies or other violent crimes
and we've seen these problems all over the country in new york city
unfortunately is no exception
in fact during the past eighteen months
has been a number of drug store robberies in the new york city region
and that have resulted in shooting deaths of store employees and customers
robbery suspects
and in one instance in suburban long island
the death of an off-duty federal law enforcers lyle officer who attempted to
stop of robert
at the same time with felony drug arrests and having gone down in new york
city
arrest for prescription drug related offenses has gone up enough sharply
and that clearly tomorrow the the demand this clearly demands aggressive action
and uh... we're trying to track the some of the public health of the public
safety fronts
let me start with what we're doing in public health care now work is based on
the recognition the most pain killers are being missed that are being misused
have been legitimately prescribed and that makes it even harder to do
something about it
hello often and doses and for durations
and for reasons that are justified by good medical practice
this is a big problem and in the end it's really up to the doctors and other
medical professionals to solve it
and that's why the medical professionals on our task force
have developed and distributed guidelines that courage physicians to
describe these potentially dangerous drugs
much more carefully
and to recognize that over prescribing them can lead to addiction to were even
to death
and incidentally four doctors they should start paying attention because
the legal liabilities
if they are found to have done it knowingly
uh... are severe and uh... and and and we're going to focus is a society off a
lot more
on trying to go after those who are abusing their position
at the same time we release the task force report but i just described we
also announced new emergency room guidelines from prescribing hope you are
a bit kitten painkillers
uh... these voluntary guidelines have been adopted in all eleven
of our cities public hospitals and also in at least eight of our non public
hospitals as well
such measures are very important because as most of you know
emergency departments play a critical role in providing pain medication
and also in dealing with the effects of painkiller abuse
new york city hospitals have adopted these guidelines are not posting them
prominently in their emergency departments
and we have posters in english and spanish and chinese russian
to tell patients that one of these pale powerful painkillers can be very
dangerous
to that they should ask for them and uh... they shouldn't ask for them
unnecessarily and three they should only use them as prescribed by a doctor
the guidelines also clearly state that emergency departments will not describe
long-acting opioid painkillers such as oxy ***
came excuse me on six continents
and in most cases they will not describe more than eighty three days supply of of
the u_n_ painkillers
and that they will not refill lost stolen
or destroyed prescriptions
task force is also help strengthen the prescription drug monitoring program
near st does have a database analyst systems in most other states that
collects information about the sale of controlled substances
and that's important because the data helps us focus our law enforcement
efforts
for example the task force looked at data from some two thousand one hundred
pharmacies across new york city and found that just one percent of them
accounted for a quarter of the highest description
uh... harpsichord on being sold and that could that could point to criminal
activity
and i think that pattern is exactly what you see in a lot of the clinton things
it is a very small percentage of people that break forward on acted responsibly
unfortunately that very small percentage can do an enormous damage to human life
and you're going work to pass a new state law to make better use of our
database in one result
is something that i have state law which is called i stop by steel gate
an acronym for internet system for tracking over prescribing
and that's going to go in effect this summer it creates new tools to detect
and prevent negligent or fraudulent distribution of controlled substances
for instance doctors and pharmacists will now be able to see a patient's
control substance history online
and doctors will be required to check the state database before providing
prescribing any controlled substance
and pharmacists will be required to put information into the state database in
real time as they dispense controlled substances and by two thousand and
fourteen under this law all dot this will be required to send prescriptions
for controlled substances to pharmacies only via computer
with the goal of eliminating the all too common forgery or theft of paper
prescriptions
uh... these are stop reforms will also give state authorities a greater
flexibility in sharing information with local public health officials something
that's going to help us
uh... detect negligence or decedent dispensing prescriptions painkillers
uh... information sharing is also critical to law enforcement as everybody
knows the city's task force working with state and federal law enforcement
officials
has created a new and sophisticated system
for information sharing across agencies
it's called and why c_e_o_ are ecstatic and and name that alludes to new york
city's
widely imitated com stats system attracting top crime patterns in our
city are expects activities will include periodic reporting to public health and
public safety officials
on data and trends that will lead to innovative new ideas and stopping
painkiller abuse
and we think also
give the public information so that the public can demand that their elected
officials
don't walk away from this problem
uh... if hell rogers and mike bloomberg and face that uh... and try to do
something about it so can the others an affiliate
don't want to do it uh... there are too lazy to do it the public can hold their
feet to the fire if the public has information and i think this will do
that
uh... are expected to these include the the
kind of periodic reporting that the public safety officials uh... and will
they used to spot tremors
and to come up with innovative new ideas to stop painkiller abuse for example are
ecstatic which the n_y_p_d_'s use health department dated a target education
campaigns
uh... into communities where prescription drug abuse is most
prevalent
and in that same spirit of cross agency collaboration
detectives for me and my p d_n_a_ out working with the federal drug
enforcement administration to investigate prescription drug crimes
and that investigation uh... that uh... broke up one of the major pain killing
drug rings
uh... that i mentioned earlier in this uh...
uh... in my talk
the n_y_p_d_ is also launched an innovative initiative to catch
embittered drugstore burglaries and hold ups by thieves who are going after
prescription and uh... painkillers last month for the first of what we expect
will become a large number of our cities approximately eighteen hundred
pharmacies
began stocking decoite bottles of oxy contents
these big bottles were as they're called uh... we have been created by the
manufacturer
of uh... oxy content not produce farmer
and don't have any pills and i am instead very cleverly they hold small
g_p_s_ devices
that will enable offices to track thieves immediately after robberies or
burglars place
and uh... it's uh... it is getting to be big brother but uh...
the big brother as a role to play as well in terms of stopping our kids from
the dying from using the pain killers and uh...
we've got to use all the technology that's available
to try to stop some of these crazy things
and we have to see of course how this whole program pans out
but we think that we are optimistic we think it's very promising and it's
another example of how we're trying to stay ahead of the criminals
and uh... if
shame on us if we don't try all these things even sometimes things that don't
work at least will know what does work and what doesn't
over the past eleven years we've use these types of innovative strategies and
we've driven crime down by more than
thirty percent to record lows in new york city last year we had the fewest
murders
in modern memory
uh... we used to have twenty years ago something like twenty three
hundred murders
eight-year-old last year we had four hundred and nineteen
and this year we are after a quarter of the year were running twenty nine
percent lower than last year
so uh... we've made a big difference there
street talked about uh... life expectancy it is uh... little over two
years slower than the average across america reads uh...
about three years are tyrone sorry than the average across america it's about
three years higher than it was ten and one half years ago we came into office
and one of the things that's making a difference is trying to get things like
uh... prescription drugs that shouldn't be in the wrong hands away from kids who
would abuse and unfortunately o_d_ on it
and it's also a function of a much lower *** rate it's a function of building
codes that stop fires and response time for ambulances which we focused on which
are an all-time low in
give a stroke a few seconds really on average to make a big difference
and so we're doing a lot of things the smoking cessation program aired ten
thousand fewer people dying every year in new york city
from smoking
and we also are starting to focus on something that will be even bigger
killer than smoking someday and that is obesity which has become a worldwide
problem it is a problem in the cities and rural areas and every place between
this year for the first time in the history of humanity
more people will die from overheating than from starvation
just think about that and it's all come about in the last twenty years
in new york city this year more people will die from the effects of obesity
than from smoking because the smoking deaths have been coming down on obesity
is just kaya rocketing
and we have to uh... do something about this
i've always believe that protecting the lives and health of our people is really
the first responsibility of any government
after all if not it expanding and
improving the quality of life isn't government's job i don't know what
government's job is
and we take our work very seriously
uh... sometimes people don't like it i remember when the week
banned smoking ten years ago and i did one of these parades new york as parades
all the time and server unique thing to new york with three weekends of saint
patrick's day parades
uh... and this uh... sunday i will do the greek orthodox parade which i missed
about four years ago they still have not forgive me for lab
button when we first got the smoking ban and as you would go by a bar
uh... you got a lot of one fingered waves
today and we we didn't have and i said uh... last week uh... the tenth
anniversary of the smoking cessation
in a bar that has been open since eighteen fifty seven he is something
like that
and the owner and the bartender for twenty seven years there in a waitress
for twenty three years
work out our press conference which we held in the bar
these with three of the most of surfers
ingi
any control on smoking people you've ever heard if you go back ten years and
today there are a hundred percent converted their business is better than
ever
and they living longer
uh... and uh... made seeing my most big cities in america right now banned
smoking
in in bars and restaurants offices and when you go into a place that does allow
smoking all of a sudden to start gagging
there was something one quick story there was a
and governor of new joining state who uh...
uh... called me and said thank you for the smoking ban you have helped my state
more than anybody else everybody's gonna come from new york city
into of my state and eat and drink their every night
and three months later the governor called me and said i just wanted you
know that i just introduced a bill identical to new york's to try to ban
smoking
and i said why and the governor said because that's their assignment
had not spend one nite in that state since the the smoking ban land again
so you can make a difference and um... is confident that our public health and
public safety efforts
uh... in this case to stop prescription pain killers are going to make a
difference in
the people that are really standing up here whether it's in washington or your
state attorney general and that their earlier who's been helpful
people around this organization
uh... they understand that we have an obligation to help each other and uh...
uh... we are making a big difference uh...
thank you for having me here i have to go back to new york turn my dollar a
year
there will be happy when they find i was out of town but i'll tell them to give
me a warm welcome anyways thank you god bless