President Joe Biden is expected to speak at the UNLV College of Hospitality on Wednesday about his administration’s efforts to lower prescription drug costs for Americans.

North Las Vegas veteran Gerald Mayes says psilocybin — hallucinogenic fungi also known as “magic mushrooms” — helped him with his post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism.

North Las Vegas veteran Gerald Mayes says psilocybin — hallucinogenic fungi also known as “magic mushrooms” — helped him with his post-traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism.

Biden, speaking before a crowd of doctors and nurses at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, vowed to protect Medicare and Social Security, while touting his administration’s successful efforts to press pharmaceutical companies to lower the costs of insulin for Americans suffering from diabetes.

From the University of Nevada, Las Vegas he planned to put the issue of reducing drug costs at the center of his politics and political agenda.

“It’s not just your health,” Biden said in the lobby of UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hospitality. “It’s about your dignity. It’s about your security. That’s why my administration is focused intensely, intensely in getting more people affordable health care.”

President Joe Biden during a speech at UNLV Wednesday touted recent legislative victories seeking to rein in prescription drug prices and vowed to build on efforts to reduce health costs.

Biden opened his speech thanking healthcare workers in the room before stating, "almost 100,000 Nevadans get their healthcare from [the Affordable Care Act], and nearly 300,000 get their healthcare from expanded medicare."

During his speech, Biden frequently addressed the scrubs- and white coat-clad students and faculty from UNLV’s health sciences programs, including the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, who filled in rows on a staircase under a banner reading “Lowering costs for American families.”