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Posted on 09/02/2015 3:32:55 PM PDT by maggief
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Let her foundation fund it.
This one even beats “man-made” global warming. Another scam to skim money.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
how about her alcoholism ?
What about espionage addiction?
As the offspring of a mother who LOVED prescription drugs up to her dying day, I can sadly say that once the love of it is there, you likely will never cure them. At best you distract them from it. Some decide the consequences are not worth it. Most zone out through the consequences and don’t really see themselves as they really are. I should have videotaped my mother and made her watch it. Knowing her, she would have used that as an emotional excuse to take more. I don’t get it. But it is what it is.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. But that does not fit the worldview of those who want to legalize all drugs.
Hmm ... what are the odds?
The day after Hillary’s Manchester, NH, Union Leader op-ed POLITICO comes out with this piece.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3332086/posts
Politico: Haters for Trump
POLITICO ^ | September 2, 2015 | BEN SCHRECKINGER
Posted on September 2, 2015 at 8:28:50 AM CDT by maggief
HANOVER, N.H. — They think Donald Trump’s ideas are “disgusting.” They think he is making a mockery of the American political system and that even he doesn’t take his own candidacy seriously. And that is exactly why they say they plan to vote for him.
Meet Trump’s protest voters.
People who in the past might have gone to the polls only to register their disdain for politicians by writing in “Mickey Mouse” — or perhaps even “Donald Trump” — now have a Republican frontrunner to rally around.
Like many sincere Trump supporters, they believe the system is totally screwed up. But instead of viewing Trump as the solution, they view him as the embodiment of the problem. And they say they’re prepared to vote for him to prove it.
“This is the candidate America deserves,” said Jeff DeFlavio, 29, a small business owner registered as an independent in the nearby town of Lebanon. He said he plans to vote for Trump in the primary, but adds, “His immigration policy is disgusting to me. It’s absolutely revolting … I really don’t want him to become president ever. Ever. He would destroy the world, which is what’s so wonderful about him.”
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See more here on the a Jeff DeFlavio, of whom has ties to the Clinton Global Initiative. Same DeFlavio POLITICO coins an “independent, small business owner?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3332086/posts?page=8#8
http://www.vermonttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/RH/20140927/NEWS01/709279922
New clinic for addicts planned in Rutland
By David Delcore
Staff Writer
Hoping to provide a cost-effective and convenient treatment alternative for Vermonters battling opiate addictions, a Massachusetts man is opening a clinic on Baxter Street in Rutland.
The clinic isn’t the only one Jeff DeFlavio is opening. It is part of a business model he said is expanding far faster than he anticipated when he opened the first Recover Together clinic in Claremont, N.H., in March.
Since then, DeFlavio opened a clinic in Lebanon, N.H., and is opening three more — one in Keene, N.H., another in downtown Barre and another “within walking distance of the courthouse” in Rutland.
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Much MORE at link.
See also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3332086/posts?page=18#18
None of the freaking federal government’s constitutional business.
The Publocrats have turned the federal government whose only lawful authority comes from and is limited by the Constitution, into the Master and Commander of the people with health benefits.
ENOUGH!!!!!
Let private, religious, and business charities handle this. Why does the federal government has to be involved in everything?
One bullet at a time works for me...
Hillary: “ Deposit 9 billion in one of my accounts(preferably the Isle of Man account) and I will spend one billion to treat drug addiction. You have my word “
No, these things aren't meant to actually address a real problem. It's the money, not reducing the behaviors. /s
Besides, Hillary should be able to sell the nation out if she wants to. Why be so intolerant? /s
"The program, much of which would be funded by the federal government, ..."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for treating drug addiction, Clinton would first need to do the following regarding her drug addiction plan. Clinton would need to work with state and federal lawmakers to propose a drug addiction amendment to the Constitution to the states. And if the states choose to ratify Clinton’s amendment then Congress would have the specific constitutional authority that it needs to tax and spend for treating drug addiction and Clinton would be a hero.
Those that want to quite, do.
Those that don't wat to quite go to rehab to keep their support (enablement) network.
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