Trump plans 'major briefing' on opioid crisis
Source: Reuters
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has scheduled what he called a "major briefing" for Tuesday on the epidemic of opioid drug use in the United States, a health crisis that kills more than 100 Americans daily.
In the midst of a two-week getaway at his golf club in New Jersey, Trump will meet with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to discuss the matter. Trump frequently mentioned the opioid crisis as a presidential candidate, but has given it less public attention since taking office in January.
A commission created by Trump to study the matter urged him last week to declare a national emergency to address what it called a crisis involving the epidemic use of opioids, framing its death toll in the context of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
The commission, headed by Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, recommended a series of steps Trump could take on his own without Congress. It called for waiving a federal rule that restricts the number of people who can receive residential addiction treatment under the Medicaid healthcare program for the poor and disabled.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-opioid-idUSKBN1AO18A
Let me guess ... we are to be tested twice a week, we have to pay for the tests, violators will be
put in pens and executed on the 30th of every month.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)blather. "Our plans are really terrific, terrible problem, Mexicans bringing it in, throwing bags of it over the wall, New Hampshire, and did you know I won the election?
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Nothing on opioids, except "Just say No."
Freethinker65
(10,061 posts)Crowman2009
(2,499 posts)A lot of those greedy pricks in NYC back in the day were snorting cocaine like it was another food group.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)hadEnuf
(2,215 posts)FSogol
(45,529 posts):Shrug:
bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)hadEnuf
(2,215 posts)And Trump thinks he is the sane one....
shraby
(21,946 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)He'll go off on Mexican Drug Lords and how nobody supports the police and how it rose under President Obama and what a hell hole New Hampshire is and how marijuana use leads to opioid addiction.
And illegal immigrants, the main cause of drug addiction.
I could weep.
Akoto
(4,267 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)And yes, I'm benefitting and so is my daughter in law from good pain management.
louis-t
(23,297 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I'm sure that is exactly the plan. He doesn't give a damn about people who are suffering from addiction. He just wants to lock up as many people as possible.
charliea
(260 posts)I thought it meant that his presidential briefing materials would consist of TWO pages!
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Botany
(70,589 posts)Or what he did @ Studio 35?
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Yavin4
(35,446 posts)Jail for everyone!
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)That was supposed to be Jared's domain, along with every other duty a REAL president usually performs himself.
I wonder what Jared and Ivanka will have to say about this? "But Daddy, you promised Jared HE could do that! That's SO UNFAIR!" This will probably break poor little Ivanka's heart. No sex for daddy THIS weekend!
BumRushDaShow
(129,543 posts)per the updated article -
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-opioid-idUSKBN1AO18A
Apparently his spent more time on the "fire and fury" bullshit than on a crisis happening right under his coke-snorting nose.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)plan is. Burns would probably get a high up position in the tRump admin!!
They_Live
(3,241 posts)from the Andy Griffith Show.
Eugene
(61,963 posts)Source: The Guardian
At major briefing on epidemic, president says strong law enforcement is absolutely vital to having a drug-free society
Jessica Glenza in New York
Tuesday 8 August 2017 22.40 BST
At an event Donald Trump had billed as a major briefing on the opioid crisis gripping America, the president on Tuesday stressed that strong, strong law enforcement was vital and rebuffed an official call to declare a national emergency.
Some had expected Trump to to declare such an emergency after his opioids commission force described this move in recent days as the first and more urgent recommendation.
Instead, Trumps prepared remarks focused on enforcement stopping the international influx of illicit drugs and alluded to the Mexican border.
Were also working with law enforcement officers to protect innocent citizens from drug dealers that poison our communities, Trump said. Strong law enforcement is absolutely vital to having a drug-free society.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/08/opioid-crisis-donald-trump-briefing-national-emergency