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Those battered by opioid epidemic applaud Trump effort, but ask 'where's the money?'
USA Today | Oct. 27, 2017

Posted on 10/27/2017 12:57:32 PM PDT by Wolfie

Edited on 10/27/2017 1:14:10 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: federalfundig; fentanyl; gateway; marijuana; opioids; recreational; wod
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To: samtheman

I’d add conservative judges and corporate tax reform to that list.


21 posted on 10/27/2017 1:15:16 PM PDT by rb22982
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To: samtheman

Amen.


22 posted on 10/27/2017 1:17:05 PM PDT by LIConFem
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To: Wolfie

Throwing money at those proud, cocky troublemakers won’t help. There’s human misery all over the place from recreational drug abuse. Save the neighbors victimized by the pushers, the addicts and their friends. Shut down the preachers of the drug and pit bull religion by arresting them all. Put them in camps in the desert...or in the ocean.


23 posted on 10/27/2017 1:17:14 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: RC one
"I think the police need more power to prosecute the war on drugs. Start shooting heroin dealers in the back of the head and watch how this problem goes away. and I’m not even joking. Start killing those MFers."

Yeah! Either President Trump will do it, or Duterte for President!

Seriously!


24 posted on 10/27/2017 1:18:50 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Wolfie

It’s the idea that matters most here.


25 posted on 10/27/2017 1:19:47 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Wolfie
Nobody’s ever had to spend money to keep me away from drugs.Am I especially strong and wise or are today's Americans just weak and hedonistic?
26 posted on 10/27/2017 1:19:50 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Da Coyote

Yeah... “I got myself hooked on drugs, so I need a few hundred thousand of taxpayer $$$ to send me to rehab, after which I’ll relapse and need to do rehab all over again. I’ll repeat the cycle over and over ‘til I overdose because, after all, why should I stop if someone else is footing the bill?”


27 posted on 10/27/2017 1:19:54 PM PDT by LIConFem
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To: Wolfie
Money doesn't solve addiction. Only addicts can solve their addiction. Money will end up gravitating to the pharmaceutical companies and their pushers who got people hooked on their poisons. It's incomprehensible that people hope for a cure to pain killer addiction that doesn't involve the patients learning to cope with pain.

The other insanity is they're talking about facilities with lots of beds for in-patient addiction treatment. Think about it. What they're suggesting is a form of imprisonment, at the same time most people are saying drug addicts shouldn't be imprisoned.

They want money? How about charging and fining pharmaceutical companies and medical "professionals" who have been irresponsible about prescribing these poisons?

28 posted on 10/27/2017 1:19:58 PM PDT by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: rb22982

I’d add conservative judges and corporate tax reform to that list.


Yes. You are right.


29 posted on 10/27/2017 1:21:05 PM PDT by samtheman (Clinton colluded with the Russians to falsely accuse Trump of colluding with the Russians.)
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To: RC one

You hit the nail on the head (pun intended :-) ).

The wall must go up to make it harder to get heroin in through the southern border. Moreover, the dealers need to be afraid. They don’t fear jail.


30 posted on 10/27/2017 1:21:12 PM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: Wolfie

As with other destructive drugs like meth for example, why don’t they just do what they did with cigarettes?

Warning labels, negative advertising up the ying=yang; make it politically incorrect and out of fashion to use drugs.

Spend the money there. Over time it worked for getting people to stop smoking or never start.

Other than furthering the police state, I don’t see what the gov’t can do to be effective. The laws are already on the books; the consequences of using is well known.


31 posted on 10/27/2017 1:21:23 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

it costs money not to buy opioids. Wait . . . what?


32 posted on 10/27/2017 1:24:31 PM PDT by BipolarBob
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To: outpostinmass2

Walling off the southern border won’t work. Instead, take all of the drugs that are confiscated coming across the border, break it all up into small baggies, load it all on a C-130 and drop it over every city in Mexico (or wherever it originated from). Better yet, simply fly it south of the border and dump it all into Mexico’s water supply. And do the same to China, since a lot of the drugs originate from there.


33 posted on 10/27/2017 1:27:28 PM PDT by LIConFem
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To: Wolfie

It’s not just North Dakota and Kentucky. It’s happening in tony suburbs, too.

15+ years after we went to Afghanistan for what should have been at most an 18 month punitive expedition, we have an opiod epidemic very much helped along by poppies grown where? You guessed it!

Why are we still there?


34 posted on 10/27/2017 1:27:36 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Wolfie

They’re selling pot, mushrooms and everything else to kids! Don’t eat fast food. The fast food joints are full of disease-carrying dope fiends including dealers. Some of them are armed with illegal weapons. They’re selling pot and weapons from drive-through windows. They brag about their pit bulls chewing on kids.

Warnings are going out in small cities, before police walk up to the counters and ask all of the employees where to get some weed. They’re not trying!

Make them start doing their jobs. They haven’t really been trying to bust drug dealers since the ‘60s. Corporations are not doing proper random drug tests. They always send warnings to employees well in advance, so employees can pass more water through their bodies in time to beat the tests!

Boycott businesses that hire drug addicts or dealers! Elect cleaner cut, drug-free sheriffs! Do something about it!


35 posted on 10/27/2017 1:27:41 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Wolfie

The money comes from Congress, not the president. Again they try to bash Trump for something not in his power. I guess they’ve been so used to Barry doing whatever the fark he wanted with no one saying squat that they have no idea what an enumerated power is.


36 posted on 10/27/2017 1:27:57 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump.)
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To: Wolfie
1. It's NOT an epidemic. It isn't contagious or transmitted from one person to another. It's pure stupidity and Darwin in action. You OD on opioids for recreational use, then you deserve to drop dead.

2. Why should I pay a penny for some idiot who overdoses and then expects someone else to pay the freight. I recently had medical stuff done for a problem that I didn't cause, and I had to pay a pretty steep deductible I didn't expect my fellow taxpayers to foot the bill.

3.Why should Trump be held responsible for the actions of idiots?

4. Opioids ae a blessing for those I pain. Too many doctors now are afraid to prescribe necessary doses because of the jerks who abuse them. The government is targeting drug producers and doctors who are providing legitimate pain relief rather than going after the morons who do this to themselves.

5. I have zero sympathy for junkies, never did have any, never will. They waste their lives and bring down anyone who cares for them. One of my former bosses had a junkie for a kid. It was pathetic what the a$$hole kid put him through. Endless expensive "rehab," constant lies, stealing everything that wasn't bolted down to feed his habit. The kid had absolutely zero interest in being anything except a junkie.

37 posted on 10/27/2017 1:31:01 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: FreedomPoster

“Why are we still there?”

Somebody has to protect those poppy fields.


38 posted on 10/27/2017 1:32:23 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump.)
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To: Wolfie

The sound swamp howler monkeys make when they find another opportunity to profit off the public.


39 posted on 10/27/2017 1:33:22 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: familyop

I like Duerte. He definitely has the right idea with regards to the drug problem and I’m glad to see our wrinkly relationship with him smoothing out after the Trump election.


40 posted on 10/27/2017 1:33:55 PM PDT by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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