Posted on 12/07/2016 11:55:42 AM PST by ColdOne
The Senate overwhelmingly passed a major medical research package on Wednesday afternoon, sending the legislation to President Obama, who has said he will sign it.
The 21st Century Cures Act, which passed 94-5, would provide $6.3 billion spread out over 10 years to medical research and the Food and Drug Administration.
Of the $6.3 billion, about $1 billion would be sent out as grants to states to help combat opioid abuse.
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this is a waste of 6 billion dollars
Another area to drain the swamp, the FDA, NIH, CDC.
A lot of corruption and incest with the drug companies.
Opiod abuse....those would be for the dudes that Obama just released from prison, right?
With all this money laying around, you would think that they may try paying down the debt. /sarc
I’m tired of paying for other people’s bad decisions. actually a year in jail will sober these heroine addicts right up!!! cheaper than 6 billion!!
$50 might actually make it to actual research
yep...biden gets a chunk of cash too.
Trump needs to get this repealed ASAP
NO MORE SPENDING and ‘research’ doesn’t produce results
> opioid abuse?
Why not both opioid (synthetic) and opiate (derived from natural opium) abuse?
Sounds too much like GMO and non-GMO narcotics.
Just another way to deny Granny and chronically ill pain meds. Which is the only way they function. It will only drive more to commit suicide because of uncontrolled pain or use street drugs. There are a known 1.33 MILLION of us. And I’m one. The new DEA restrictions are bad enough, all based on false research. And because some idiots abused Street drugs or booze with script meds.
So we all have to pay for the bad behavior of a few. That includes CANCER Patients.
NO CONNECTION TO PAIN MEDS
ADDICTION https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2015/6/12/there-is-no-epidemic-of-p ainkiller-overdoses
PTSD In Vets Is Leading To A More Sinister Problem
http://blog.theveteranssite.com/cs-military-addiction/?utm_source=vet-mmp&utm_medium=paid-affiliate-fb&utm_term=20161203&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=cs-military-addiction&origin=vet_mmp_paid-affiliate_fb_link_cs-military-addiction_20161203
It’s Time the Health Care System Serve the People
https://www.lifezette.com/healthzette/its-time-the-health-care-system-serve-people
DEA shortage of pain meds
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/4/13166594/dea-opioid-epidemic-manufacturer-2017-substance-
New DEA rules place more restrictions on popular painkillers
http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/new-dea-rules-place-more-restrictions- on-popular-painkillers/
Pain Management
https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2016/1/5/the-cdc-and-profit-driven- drug-testing
Chronic health conditions
http://www.nationalhealthcouncil.org/sites/default/files/NHC_Files/Pdf_Files/AboutChronicDisease.pdf
You know what federal employees get? Choice. Lots and LOTS of choice. Check it out...
https://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/healthcare/
Dr Peter Gøtzsche Exposes Big Pharma as Organized Crime
http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/dr-peter-gotzsche-exposes-big-pharma-as-organized-crime/
Doctors Earn $3.5 Billion in Kickbacks from Pharmaceutical Companies
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/doctors-earn-3-5-billion-in-kickbacks-from-pharmaceutical-companies/
The problem is, government is ill equipped to deal with this problem, which is essentially a feature of cultural decay, and the billion earmarked for it will mostly be wasted. We know the solution, but it will take decades, and I doubt the country is prepared to make the changes necessary. Incentives are all against regeneration of a viable sense of community.
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