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Trump says opioid crisis threatens everyone

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Cool! This is why we should cut funding for healthcare! (Do Repubs understand the concept of cognitive dissonance?)

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Well, probably nobody would go against that statement.

Now, will treatment and rehab be covered by healthcare?

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Like everything else, President Trump doesn't understand the opioid crisis. It is not because heroin is coming in from Mexico. It is because people were told that pain could be a voluntary choice -- that one could live pain-free (after routine surgeries or from chronic conditions). Once people got prescription medication, the pain went away but so did other problems, like depression, worry and low self-esteem. To feel good, people wanted more of the prescriptions... and a market for unused prescription medication arose, along with a market for illegal "replacements" for those drugs. Trump only glommed on to the message because it resonated in the white, rural areas where he was popular... he has little regard for anyone with any weakness.

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That may have been true a few years ago but the crisis has since become a trafficking problem.

Illegal street drugs, not prescriptions, now powering opioid abuse, study finds

https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/25/fentanyl-street-drugs-cdc/

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 It is because people were told that pain could be a voluntary choice -- that one could live pain-free

Which choice would you make? I know which one I would, if I had a painful chronic disease, such as diabetes and cancer, and not much time left to live.

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Poverty kills. Billionaires cutting health care kill.

End them both.

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Ha ha, he is one of those pocketing bribes from Big Pharma!

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I think we can all agree with Trump on this one.

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Now let's see if DT will declare it as emergency, if he really believes on what he said, or if it is like usual...only hot air spoken, if possible in less than 140 characters so it can be re-tweeted...

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Americans know how to get addicted. The drug(s) of choice changes over time but there is always one or two main ones. What the hell is wrong with us? The main reason why I refused the prescription the doctor gave me for my outpatient care when I got sick years back was my fear of getting addicted. Although the hydromorphone they gave me was wicked good, I felt bearing the pain would be better in the long run. Addiction is a way of life and a kind of badge of honor to some. The government does not always need to take care of you, especially if your own destructive behavior is the source of your problems.

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I'd say the only real way to combat the crisis is to legalize weed in the most affected areas. These guys got hooked for a reason and that's to treat mainly chronic pain, which would leave these sufferers in a terrible position if they were either arrested or forced off their opioids. Weed would help them with their pain and their withdrawals

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It is not because heroin is coming in from Mexico.

Earlier this year State Department officials estimated that up to 94% of the heroin entering the US comes from Mexico. Mexican drug cartels have literally cornered the market on heroin in the US and have increased production and smuggling efforts to keep pace with an increasing demand. For the last ten years or so, there has been a trend upward in the availability of Mexican heroin with a corresponding downward trend in price. So right now, Mexican heroin is readily available and at a price that is far lower than something like oxycontin.

So yeah....I think heroin coming in from Mexico is a big part of this growing problem.

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Trump only glommed on to the message because it resonated in the white, rural areas where he was popular... he has little regard for anyone with any weakness.

So the last admin. didn't care about the drug problem that has been crippling minority communities for years and years, they did nothing and the hardest hit areas didn't feel the love, you are once again injecting race into another bad epidemic. The drug problem hits everyone of every color or race and doesn't discriminate, because the minority communities in cities like Chicago, St. Louis, NY, Miami and Los Angeles are swamped with drugs. So whether one type of community uses one kind of drug or another community uses another kind doesn't matter, the drug epidemic is hurting everyone.

I really wonder why the Amerivcan nation came to this. Painkillers are prescribed in other countries too but we do not see such problems there. Are the American painkillers different? If so, how and why?

Where is here?

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So yeah....I think heroin coming in from Mexico is a big part of this growing problem.

Smuggled into Mexicao, sythetically produced in China.

Carfentanil is 10000 times more powerful than heroin, and is used to tranquilize elephants. It's being mixed with regular heroin and the addicts will never know. Thus the massive overdoses and deaths. Seems Mexican gangs have seen a drop in their pot profits and are looking for new revenue. Strangely though, if you're a dealer, what good does it do to kill your costomers? I watched a ridiculously stupid movie last night "Purge", I'd say Ethan Hawks worst so far, we know the CIA introduced Crack cocain onto the streets, so maybe this is just another CIA purge.

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I've read more than 10 stories about young couples shooting up with children in the house or car, the couple dying, and their babies either found dead or close to death.

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