Lawmakers react to '60 Minutes,' Washington Post opioid report

Congress was quick to react to the "60 Minutes" and Washington Post report on how highly addictive opioids have become an epidemic the United States. CBS News chief congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes reports from Capitol Hill.

[SuprBeats]

in both parties' pockets. Now they are acting surprised. C'mon. What's worse than trusting a lawyer? It's trusting a politician.

[oceanlore]

Orrin hatch spends $10 million on campaigns.? Cap on campaign spending and corporate donations needs to be demanded by voter's ! Talk about obscene.

[williamridgesr.]

I am a 100% disabled veteran and I was on morphine for 21 years. The VA, in it's infinite wisdom, decided I needed to be taken off of it "in case I get addicted". Now, I'm not on any pain meds. How is that going to help the Opioid Epidemic?

[cycleforwardtime]

Legislative Malpractice Personified! Repeal this immediately! The LEGISLATORS who authored this bill did what they were paid to do.

[ianh]

Making that dude drug czar is like giving Amy Winecottage the keys to the minibar

[qinby]

Jesus even CBS excuses this "nobody understod this it was an honest mistake"

[jojomama]

the crisis is forcing people to live in pain...how would you like to see your mom in excruciating pain and her doctors afraid to prescribe the medicine that would help her

[LS-whrn]

They understood the language-puhlease 🙄

[andyknight]

that's what you get for not reading your bills this nothing new too busy raising money or they knew

[taniesha]

The pills are not going anywhere best thing I can tell you is just make your family knowledgeable about opioids are.

[ronalove]

Legalize marijuana! Especially for medicinal purposes😱 Opioid problem solved!

[idarum]

Who cares who dies. Look at the successful companies. God blesses and prospered them. Many of the executive's have made enough to sustain their families for 10 generations. Praise Jesus.

[popev]

And the good news for the honest hard-working taxpaying citizens of the USA is that 33, 000 of these OBAMACARE welfare parasites died in 2015. The bad news is that not all of those parasites died! This country should do what the Chinese communists did to cure the opiod epidemic in China in the 1950's and that is give the addicts an ultimatum and that ultimatum is get your no good worthless sorry dope addicted self off of herion or in one month we are going to erase you off of the face of the map of China. And China never had an opiod problem after that!