Posted on 03/13/2019 9:18:13 PM PDT by NoLibZone
In 2016, a group of national health experts asked the Obama administration to declare a national public health emergency in response to spiking fentanyl deaths, but were ignored, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Overdose deaths caused by synthetic opioids, most prominently fentanyl and its analogues, have skyrocketed since 2013.
In May of 2016, 11 public health experts wrote a private letter to six Obama administration officials—including the heads of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and Centers for Disease Control—asking for a public health emergency to be declared so that the federal government could better respond to the surge of overdose deaths.
A few months later, the White House would declare a national health emergency, requesting $1.9 billion to fight the Zika virus.
Two Americans would ultimately die from Zika; more than 19,000 would overdose on fentanyl in the same year.
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Obama was actually Trump in half-blackface! See, see! Trump’s to blame! < /S >
This is the compassionate Pres. Obama, who didn’t give a hoot about Americans unless they could do something for him. It was, and is, always about him. His time in office was ruinous for America.
0bunghole specialized in leading from his behind.
not a smidgen of scandal in the Obama administration
Obama in 2009, ‘sometimes you just need to take a pain pill’.....
Fentanyl is deadly, but at least those who overdose won’t be using any more of our ‘healthcare resources’. Leftists have no conscience.
Obama is a smart Marxist psychopath. He doesn’t care how many innocent people will die, only if they will vote for him. Otherwise they are “Expendables”, including “the brothers”.
Obama didn’t want to draw attention to problems at the Mexico border.
Our great Odumbo administration at work.
The Kenyan was not worth a $hit for anything and the snow flakes loved him
Maybe because his administration was protecting a certain alphabet agency rat line.
Hey! At least he had the libertarian vote!
Killing a lot of middle America white people?
He probably laughed his ass off about it.
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