Hillary Clinton’s $10 billion plan for treating drug addiction--& lessen incarceration

[riversedge]

Hillary's smaller town meetings have been productive. I am so glad she (and other candidates) have put is issue on the front burner.




http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/02/hillary-clintons-10-billion-plan-for-treating-drug-addiction/?postshare=6151441223995215


Hillary Clinton’s $10 billion plan for treating drug addiction

By Anne Gearan September 2 at 2:54 PM


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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Summer Meeting in Minneapolis, Minn., on Aug. 28. (Craig Lassig/Reuters)



Responding to what she called a “quiet epidemic” of heroin and prescription opiate abuse, Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed a $10 billion plan Wednesday to treat addicts and curb incarceration for nonviolent drug offenses.

The program, much of which would be funded by the federal government, would also help get a life-saving rescue drug into the hands of more emergency responders to improve the odds for overdose victims.

The plan, announced in an op-ed in the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader newspaper, grew out of months of discussion of national drug addiction at Clinton campaign events in New Hampshire, Iowa and elsewhere. The topic comes up nearly every time Clinton engages voters in public, and she has made the scourge of drug addiction a part of her stump speech.

In the op-ed, Clinton recounted her discussion with a retired doctor in New Hampshire in April, just after she entered the 2016 race.

“He said his biggest worry was the rising tide of heroin addiction in the state, following a wave of prescription drug abuse,” Clinton wrote. “To be candid, I didn’t expect what came next. In state after state, this issue came up again and again — from so many people, from all walks of life, in small towns and big cities.”

[cannabis_flower]

1. I'm guessing. .

She hasn't mentioned legalizing marijuana.

[riversedge]

2. Hillary also held a Q & A Facebook sesseion today. Here is some information about the

program.


Du link:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251566098

[jeff47]

3. Odd.

Remember, everyone who derided Sanders's "free college" proposal largely because it wasn't paid for? Even though it was paid for.

Clinton's op-ed leaves out where the $10B would come from. Same people don't seem to be asking how she'd pay for it.

Odd.

[Andy823]

4. Thanks for the post.

Treatment really does work, along with the use of support groups, much better than putting people in jail. I am glad to see Hillary taking on these issues, and I hope that every candidate can comes up with plans to work in the problems of drug addiction and how to help those who are addicted without just putting them in jail.

I wish more posts on this board were positive things about the good ideas, and plans, that the candidates have. All the fighting and mud slinging is really not helping things. Again thanks for a positive thread.

[riversedge]

5. "We as a nation need to get over the fiction that willpower is the cure for a brain disease."

I know so many folks who believe and say this!

Hillary Clinton ?@HillaryClinton 13m13 minutes ago

"We as a nation need to get over the fiction that willpower is the cure for a brain disease." http://hrc.io/addictionstories …

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. I was told by some of the more outspoken denizens of this board her plan is no good.

eom

[riversedge]

9. well, the old saying --you can't believe everything you hear

probably applies.

In solidarity

[LettuceSea]

7. Good job HRC!!

Glad she is willing to address this issue. Heroin and opiate addiction can impact ANYONE.

[Doctor_J]

8. I wish the propagandists would combine their salvos

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251566304

Is already being debunked.

[PowerToThePeople]

10. Look!