Good to see trump was really serious about his war on opiod addiction... appoints Kellyann Conway as Opioid Czar. Seriously. Medical background? Um, no. Crime fighting experience? Um, no. H should have appointed Rush Limbaugh... at least he knows opioids. Conway to lead White House opioid effort http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/362477-conway-to-lead-white-house-opioid-effort
Looking at what this kind of abuse costs our economy. https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics11 Code: | Substance |Health Care |Overall | Year Estimate Based On| |:--------------------------|:------------|:-------------|----------------------:| |Tobacco1,2 |$168 billion |$300 billion | 2010| |Alcohol3 |$27 billion |$249 billion | 2010| |Illicit Drugs4,5 |$11 billion |$193 billion | 2007| |Prescription Opioids6 |$26 billion |$78.5 billion | 2013|
Biologically speaking this is true but are too intelligent to know this isn’t the daily reality. Look at the history of this side of the world.
It costs a lot. It also takes a lot of stupidity to ignore, dismiss, and trivialize the issue for mere political posturing. This country has become so racists that it will not pay attention to this issue until it is revealed that some non-white demographic is being effected by this crisis, too. Which there are such. We know how to solve these kinds of problems. We were able to reduce a lot of the problems associated with the "crack epidemic" by locking people up; by getting tough on crime. It's time to do it again.
You actually aren't serious about solving this issue if that is your solution . If anyone needs to go to prison it's Purdue pharma execs during their development and bold face lying of addiction levels of their oxycontin drug.
Blaming a racist country for failure to act on drug addiction but praising the sentencing guidelines that locked up a generation of minorities is just a new level of stupidity on your part.
Whites comprise nearly 80% of opioid overdoses. If we start locking up these caucasians like we did the "crackheads" we'll get the caucasian GOP congressemen's attention. Is that what you're saying?
It's pretty depressing to think about but we at least can be pretty certain that our government will not treat this opiad epidemic in a criminal manner like they did crack cocaine due to majoirty of opiad victims being white . It's kinda comforting knowing there is going to be a bit more empathy for this epidemic than the crack cocaine epidemic.
I don't think that anyone is saying that the opioid issue isn't concerning. It clearly is. Concerning the Yeah...... you can add lazy doctors to the list.
I don’t do these drugs. There’s absolutely no reason for people who have not done these things to go to jail. Do you even know how our justice system works?
