President Trump on Thursday said his administration would declare the opioid crisis a national emergency, just two days after his top health official said, after meeting with the president, that such a step was not necessary.
Trump’s remarks came after his commission on combatting drug abuse issued an “urgent” recommendation last week that he issue an emergency declaration.
It’s still unclear what the emergency declaration will look like. The laws that govern such declarations stipulate that the president himself spell out what resources will become available and what new authorities the administration will take on.
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Just buying time. Hoping media and people will forget yet another empty promise
I’d recommend anyone with chronic pain or an addiction look into Kratom. It’s a plant native to Asia that many use for pain or to kick an opiate addiction.
It’s legal in most US states and near impossible to overdose on when taken alone since it’s generally in crushed leaf form.
It’s often more economical to order it online. More info about the plant and where to order it can be found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kratom/
Personally, I use it for depression and anxiety. It’s helped me greatly.
As a chronic pain patient, due to being rear ended by a drunk driver 1030 in the a.m. on a Wednesday morning I have had to endure five separate fusion surgeries. I am all for cracking down on opiate abuse and narcotic abuse. Especially those that obtain them illegally, sell them illegally, misuse their medication, and do not follow the rules of their written narcotics contract. I personally myself have had a narcotics contract through my pain management provider for the last 10 years. I have personally never failed any form of urine exam, pill count, med check, or any of the other rules associated with my narcotics contract. I just pray that President Trump does not forget that there are those of us that require these medications not only to have some semblance of a quality of life, but also to continue our dreams and our occupations or careers, much less to be able to just provide basic needs for ourselves and our families. Please do not make us “the forgotten ones” and the ones that need to suffer for other people’s mistakes. Whether it’s cancer, a genetic disorder, or a simple car accident please do not make us a victim again.
How about the government negotiate the lowering of all drug costs? Didn’t The Deal Maker claim this was something he was going to do if elected?
Trump said something, so what? Looking at the trend, it could actually mean he will not do anything or do the exact opposite.
Publish this article again when what he said is actually in the form of a legally binding document
Medicaid should cover the disabled and children who don’t have coverage. The 10 to 20 M low-income added people that it covers should be allowed to buy insurance, they want, across state lines. Subsidized on a means tested basis. This same insurance would be available to all people
This is like the Nixon administration with marijuana. They are creating a public panic over something that doesn’t exist in order to distract from other political issues.
Trump and McConnell need to get on the same page. Neither one is communicating effectively nor are they in touch with reality. the tweets continue to attack.
The Real issue is our Healthcare System. McConnell and the GOP have had a hard on only because they did not respect and were against former President Obama, thus the ACA is the real name not Obamacare, which is the slang term used by the haters including current POTUS whom can’t distinguish the truth from alternative facts because he is the Author of such. He is uneducated with an unhealthy mind with serious mental health instabilities. He is is own worst enemy on every level. He is so desperately insecure he attacks everybody in his path it’s never his fault. The decisions he makes are not rational, thus based on his sources as he often quotes, I heard from so and so. It’s never I researched or I have learned from really listened to the American People for any factual basis. All of his rhetoric and propaganda has No Factual Basis, just shear hate and a revenge to destroy the legacy of former POTUS.
Our Country needs Transparency for Congress to have a conscience to do the job they were elected to do, Represent the People Not Special Interest. The corruption and Greed is the American Way which has been and continues to control our Government. This whole repeal is all about taking away Healthcare for Millions of people only to give the already wealthiest a Tax break, We cannot afford this, nor can we afford a wall when there are so many more important issues which have been neglected, our Healthcare System, CDC, FDA, AMA, etc., Insurance & Pharmaceutical Companies are the problem. We need to get back to the basics, All natural modalities and getting to the root causes instead of putting a bandaid, masking the problems. It’s a monopoly, Doctors are practicing, here try this let’s see how you respond. The vaccine schedule is out of control, Why because its $ making, profitable. Doctors are getting kickbacks from Pharmaceutical Co. for every prescription, every vaccine, every referral for money making tests, etc. Google it, put a name in and up will come how much $ they profit. It’s such an Injustice to Society.
Our Country’s basic necessities have been neglected for far to long. Our Systems are broken from the WH right down to the local Municipalities. The Priorities are not being met. Infrastructure is Antiquated, We need Roads, Highways, Transit, Bridges, Tunnels, Water and Sewage, Buildings, Schools, etc., etc.
The real epidemic is the fact that people are dying because they are Abusing “Street Drugs” which are being concocted with household chemicals and Opiods. This is the real danger, not the individuals whom are genuinely suffering excruciating, debilitating chronic pain from Injuries, Infectious Diseases, Cancers, unsuccessful Surgeries,etc.
The Real Pandemic progressively escalating in this Country and Worldwide is Lyme Disease & All the Tickborn vector Diseases which has been under reported by the CDC over the past few decades. Lyme Disease is now in every State of the USA and in every Country Worldwide. It is the new STD, Aids/Post Sepsis Infectious Disease. Additionally, Ticks have infected the whole food chain any insect, be it gnats, ants, bedbugs, dustmites, flies, spiders, fleas, lice, rodents, birds, frogs, bees, squirrels, and livestock, chickens, hens, pigs, cows, sheep, lamb, horses, goats, deer, and our household pets,all can be carriers spreading the tickborn diseases, Nobody is safe.
The CDC knows this, yet they continue to have Unreliable Antiquated Guidelines, Denial of Chronic Lyme & Tickborn Diseases, Unreliable Standard Tests in which they know and have been protecting the Perpetrators who altered the Science of the tests based on a Fraudulent study. For all the Facts see; http://www.thetruthcures.org.
This is the Injustice which wreaks havoc on our Society. People are dying from consequences of Tickborn infections being the root cause of the underlying labels the CDC has created in an effort to divert and manipulate us from the truth. MS, CFS, ME, Sarcoid, Adem, NMO, TM, EBV, Parkinsons, Dementia, Alzheimers, Mayis Gravis, Autism, ADD, ADHD, Asthma, Mold Toxcity, Herpes Virus, Shingles, hundreds of Labels have been created as a diversion. Autopsy results have been conclusive that Tick born infections/ Lyme Disease has been found in the brains of the deceased.
Additionally, Tickborn infection is risen 500% this season due to the climate.
Educate, educate, educate oneself in order to exist in this day in age.
May America get back to the foundations our forefathers begun.
This now out of control, completely misguided war on opioids is harming and will harm more valid pain patients. The government cannot track nor obviously control the influx of illicit drugs into the country so they are going after the most vulnerable and best tracked people, chronic pain patients! Disgusting!!
Agree. Billions will now be poured down the rabbit hole.
This could possibly be Nancy Reagan’s ‘Just Say No’ all over again. The ‘War On Drugs’ continues… D.A.R.E. to critically think.
Waiting for those addicts to show up saying “there’s no opioid crisis!?!!”
/overdoses
/revived with Narcan
A future episode of “America’s Got Talent” will show the story of the junkie who was saved two dozen times before he lost the game of Narcan Roulette.