Trump declares opioid epidemic a national emergency: What it means

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-declares-opioid-crisis-national-emergency-191349066--politics.html

You know, when I was growing up they had the LSD and they had certain generations of drugs," he continued. "There's never been anything like what's happened to this country over the last four or five years."


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[1 Points] None:

BEDMINSTER, New Jersey (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will officially declare the opioid crisis a "national emergency" and pledged to ramp up government efforts to combat the epidemic.

"The opioid crisis is an emergency. And I am saying officially right now: It is an emergency, it's a national emergency. We're going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis," Trump told reporters during a brief question-and-answer session ahead of a security briefing Thursday at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.

He said he'd be drawing up documents to formalize the declaration soon.

A drug commission convened by Trump and led by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie recently called on Trump to declare a national emergency to help deal with the growing crisis. An initial report from the commission noted that the approximately 142 deaths each day from drug overdoses mean the death toll is "equal to September 11th every three weeks."

Trump received a briefing on the report earlier this week during his 17-day working vacation in New Jersey.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price seemed to suggest after that briefing that the president was leaning against the recommendation, arguing that the administration could deploy the necessary resources and attention to deal with the crisis without declaring a national emergency.

Still, Price stressed that "all things" were "on the table for the president."

Trump said Thursday that the nation's addiction to opioids is "a serious problem, the likes of which we have never had."


[37 Points] mrmcepic69:

He's only going to make things worse by expanding the war on drugs, the fucking faggot.


[20 Points] agorathrow8080:

Yeah everyone ia dying because prices have doubled and dealers are switching to fent.

7 years ago i was getting pharmacy 30s for 15. Now they are 30 if your lucky and know someone.

I juat wanna get my 20 a month to have some fun on fridays and saturdays. But yeah lets make it harder one people that actually do need them, while also squeezing the market tighter on us, so they find more ways to get fent into the stream of things and kill more people as they go from mixing it into H and such and more people start pressing their own and selling fake roxies.

Im all for legalization of everything, most people are not going to suddenly turn into junkies, but it will.make it easier on us fun loving not so junkie that we cant function folks lol.

People have saying forver after one vicodin your gonna be a junkie, it is super easy just to take a few month and not fall down a hole while your life spirals...and the ones that happens to, it will happen to legal or not

Im sure ill get killed for this, but there are plenty of responsible drug users walking in everyday life. I have met more people that arw heavy users in corporate world, than i have out on the streets and i grew up.in a shitty place that is prone to really bad addiction problems.


[8 Points] cheapcab:

Thanks to the war on drugs.


[6 Points] YellowMellowDuck:

Let Trump eat all fent in the USA, this would solve the problem.


[2 Points] basjin:

so econ is at war with trump now?


[2 Points] Tyrannosaurusmeth:

I wonder how many Sept 11ths alcohol and tobacco cause every 3 weeks. Capitol Hill, more like capital hill.


[2 Points] GroomLake51:

war on terror = more terror, war on drugs = more drugs, war on opioids = more opioids..


[2 Points] None:

It's Trump what were you expecting?


[2 Points] ImTheFlyingPig:

So glad Trump is our president! /s


[1 Points] stacey2109:

What a dumb piece of shit! The actual solution is to LEGALIZE and REGULATE ALL DRUGS! People are NOT dying from heroin because of LONG-TERM EFFECTS, people are dying from heroin from OVERDOSE!


[-2 Points] Ilivewithbastards:

If Hillary won we still would be dealing with a dumb cunt remember that guys. God do i love Bill Clinton though I would dab down with that country boy until his cow wife came home. And then id be like "yo slick willy ima bounce."