Posted on 08/10/2017 2:41:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Two days after his advisers said otherwise, President Trump said Thursday that he does plan to formally declare the opioid addiction crisis an emergency — as the commission he appointed to study the epidemic had recommended.
“I’m saying officially right now it is an emergency,” he told reporters at his golf course in Bedminster, N.J., where he has been vacationing. “We’re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis. We’re going to draw it up and we’re going to make it a national emergency.”
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who chairs the opioid commission, said in a statement he was grateful the president had accepted the recommendation.
“I am completely confident that the President will address this problem aggressively and do all he can to alleviate the suffering and loss of scores of families in every corner of our country. We look forward to continuing the Commission’s efforts and to working with this President,” he said.
Trump did not say what declaring a national emergency might entail, and didn’t mention the commission’s other recommendations, which were outlined in a draft report released last week and focused entirely on public-health measures to curtail an epidemic that killed more than 900 people in Philadelphia last year and is on track to claim another 1,200 lives by year’s end. The commission wrote that 142 Americans a day die of drug overdoses....
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Before my surgery I would have killed myself without the little bit of relief the drugs gave me.
The drugs never killed my pain completely, they only allowed me to dull the pain enough to somewhat function.
People that truly need pain meds and don't abuse them seldom get addicted. They will become dependent but that is in no way addicted. I'm posting from work. I have a page bookmarked that explains the difference between addiction and dependence when I get home.
Is that directed at me?
FMCDH(BITS)
What kind of work?
Oh, I’m sorry. It was not directed at you. It was directed at someone else but some how I I posted it to you. Again I am so sorry.
I wish there was a way to edit a post when I make such an error.
Exactly. Why should the taxpayer “spend a lot of money” on this.
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