Re Opioid problem

Trump & CONGRESS all talk no action

the truth is simple logic

STOP MAKING THEM!!

SAME AS Qualudes were outlawed in 1980
Cut the Head off the Snake

Anything less is Bull****

I sent Trump
his 3 kids ,
Pence
USA Today
Wall St Journal
the 3 TV Networks
and CNN
& Fox

this simple message on Twitter

Stop the manufacture

as we did with Qualudes
OUTLAWED IN 1980
Cut the Head off the Snake
Anything less is Bull****

THEY ARE ALL GETTING PAID TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY

Its all about the Money

Big Pharma pays the Congress
and The TV and Media all those ads on the 630pm News

FACTS

Political action committees representing the industry contributed at least $1.5 million to the 23 lawmakers who sponsored or co-sponsored four versions of the bill, including nearly $100,000 to Marino
and $177,000 to Hatch.

Overall, the drug industry spent $106 million lobbying Congress on the bill and other legislation between 2014 and 2016, according to lobbying reports.


“The drug industry, the manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and chain drugstores, have an influence over Congress that has never been seen before,”
said Joseph T. Rannazzisi,

HE ran the DEA’s division responsible for regulating the drug industry and led a decade-long campaign of aggressive enforcement

until he was forced out of the agency in 2015.

“I mean, to get Congress to pass a bill to protect their interests in the height of an opioid epidemic just shows me how much influence they have.”

Write your congressman?
Good Luck
Mr Green got to him ahead of you

Uitil we get $ out of Politics
by electing those who sign a contract not to take a dime but their salary
its not a Democracy

Yes America is the best place on the planet
but not perfect

Yea we know money pays off in business & life

but when people are dying that's just wrong

3 Times more Deaths than the Vietnam war
and they could give a ****

The alternative plant based pain relief
"Kratom" see link below
Since a plant cannot be patented Drug companies don't sell distribute


http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/health/opioid-crisis-kratom-potential/index.html

The previous administrations were lining their pockets. Trump is trying to put a stop to it. That is why they hate him.. All a bunch of greedy crooks. I have clients who are pharmacists and they tell me stores about the pharmaceutical companies and the theft and monopolies congress lets them get away with. If there is ever a problem. Follow the money trail..

Drain the swamp.. Get em out

He's hated because his a a lying, racist, mysognist. But I digress.

All Trump did is sign a piece of paper.
Aiming a public health campaign at kids when it is white middle class Americans over 65 that are the majority abusers, a ridiculous PR effort similar to Reagan's "War On Drugs" and no addition funds are just a few reasons why this action is meaningless.

But don't take my word for it. Just go to Trump Country in Ohio.


In pro-Trump Ohio county, opioid announcement disappoints
Tim Reid

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - Doug Corcoran is in the trenches every day in the fight against the opioid crisis in the rural Ohio county he helps oversee.

So President Donald Trump’s failure this week to formally declare the overdose epidemic a “national emergency” - words that would have freed up more federal funds to tackle the crisis - was disappointing for him.

“I have been hopeful for the last several years that the federal government would step up and help us with this crisis, and they haven’t. They’ve really dropped the ball on this and it’s sad,” said Corcoran, a county commissioner in Ross County, home to 77,000 people an hour south of Columbus, Ohio.

The county’s child services budget nearly doubled in the past five years to almost $2.4 million from $1.3 million, because of the number of children needing care due to addicted parents. For a county with a general fund of $23 million, that is a stress on the finances.

Corcoran struggles constantly to make funds available from the county budget for the likes of drug treatment centers, the county jail and anti-drug education programs.

The disappointment about Trump’s announcement is more bitter in Ross County given that more than 60 percent of the county voted for the Republican at last year’s presidential election against Democrat Hillary Clinton.

ACROSS THE COUNTRY

Corcoran, who attended a youth education event about opioids on Friday in the city of Chillicothe, is not alone as the crisis strains local budgets across the country.

Brian Namey, a spokesman for the National Association of Counties, which represents 3,069 county and local governments, said Trump’s declaration on Thursday that the opioid crisis is a “public health emergency” rather than a national emergency lasts only 90 days and frees up no additional federal funds.

“We strongly urge the administration to release additional money to confront this emergency,” Namey said.

The opioid epidemic played a role in more than 33,000 deaths in 2015, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The death rate has kept rising, both in cities and in many rural areas across the country, estimates show.

Opioids, primarily prescription painkillers, in addition to heroin and fentanyl - a pain medicine 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine - are fueling the drug overdoses. More than 100 Americans die daily from related overdoses, according to the CDC.

Republican lawmakers called the president’s declaration an important step in combating the crisis. Some critics, including Democratic lawmakers, said it was meaningless without additional funding.

The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), representing nearly 3,000 local health departments, also expressed disappointment that Trump did not go further and call the crisis a national emergency.

“The declaration of an opioid public health emergency and not a state of national emergency does not go far enough,” said NACCHO’s Laura Hanen, the association’s interim executive director. “We strongly urge the Administration to act further and release additional monies to bring this emergency to an end.”

Matt Osterberg is a county commissioner in rural Pike County, Pennsylvania. He said the county jail has roughly 120 inmates, the majority of whom are incarcerated for a drug-related crime.

The county of 55,000 has an overall annual budget of $42 million. It spends $3.5 million annually treating drug addicts inside the jail, but often when inmates are released they start taking drugs again and end up back behind bars.

Additional federal funds would be vital to help finance treatment centers for inmates once they are released, something the county cannot afford.

“If people got proper intensive treatment after they get out of jail, that would be my dream,” Osterberg said.

Additional reporting by Paula Seligson in New York; Editing by Alistair Bell
Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Kinda like bettin on a game. You can always dig up info to support your cause.
I just know the issue is at the forefront now. Not like the previous administration who turned their backs and lined their pockets, Trump doesn't need money and they cant buy him off. They are having a hard time dealing with it. And the swamp water is getting lower and lower and the panic is setting in. They are desperate to get him out of office, before they are all exposed and the swamp is dry.