Posted on 05/14/2025 7:23:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump has long railed against drug traffickers. He has said they should be given the death penalty “for their heinous acts.” On the first day of his second term, he signed an executive order listing cartels as “terrorist organizations.”
But many public health and addiction experts fear that his budget proposals and other actions effectively punish people who use drugs and struggle with addiction.
The Trump administration has vowed to reduce overdose deaths, one of the country’s deadliest public health crises, by emphasizing law enforcement, border patrols and tariffs against China and Mexico to keep out fentanyl and other dangerous drugs. But it is also seeking huge cuts to programs that reduce drug demand.
The budget it submitted to Congress this month seeks to eliminate more than a billion dollars for national and regional treatment and prevention services. The primary federal agency addressing drug use, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, has so far lost about half its workers to layoffs under the Trump administration and is slated to be collapsed into the new Administration for a Healthy America, whose purview will reach far beyond mental illness and drug use.
And if reductions to Medicaid being discussed by Republicans in Congress are realized, millions of Americans will be unable to continue, much less start treatment.
The White House did not respond to requests for comment. The budget itself says that ending drug trafficking “starts with secure borders and a commitment to law and order” and that it is cutting addiction services deemed duplicative or “too small to have a national impact.”
Those cuts are agonizing, public health experts say, because they come just as the...
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Two words for all you junkies: Cold. Turkey.
Only the low I.Q. turds would worry about this. Even the retarded headline don’t make any sense. This is just another RAT “don’t rock the boat” POS.
Maybe the NYT is worried about losing even more of their readership. Sober and sane people are much less likely to believe the lies and propaganda published there.
Oh, good grief.
Fiction writer Jan Hoffman is a real POS.
She learned from her Commie professors well.
If gov money can help drug addiction decrease, it would have, but it didn't did it ?
The answer to drug addiction is a personal relationship with the supreme healer, Jesus Christ.
Too bad Keith Ellison , Obama crony, is trying to get Mike lindells drug rehab shut down.
Maybe you should write about THAT jan.
Or is drug addiction and rehabilitation not what you are really upset about ?
If you cut off their supply that’s exactly what will happen. The NYT never seems to find a bottom they won’t lick.
NYT
Seriously? A multi-pronged approach to saving lives seems
to be a smart thing to do, and protecting pushers isn’t
exactly a brainiac idea.
Wait....WHAT...this isn’t from THE BEE?
Prescribed a chemical cocktail of meds, this once lively woman is now
fearful to mingle in public.
One thing quickly found out, the system is happy to hook patients on
unneeded meds, but will absolutely not assist cutting down on meds
that may no longer be needed.
Legalized drug dealing physicians need strict monitoring if they have
only monetary interest prescribing drugs.
Pretzel logic as only the NYT can demonstrate.
People who use drugs and struggle with addiction SHOULD BE SEVERELY PUNISHED!
I AM A HARD “NO” WITH RESPECT TO FEELING SORRY FOR DRUGGIES!
“… millions of Americans will be unable to continue, much less start treatment.”
Sounds like a local, not federal, problem.
Too bad- when peeps go to prison, they are forced to go cold turkey- noone complaining about how they “hurt”! Doing drugs has risks, a d one of those “risks” is thst they might have to go cold turkey for one reason or another at some point- don’t want to hear bleeding hearts pining for addicts.
The liberal solution to everything is figure out what makes sense and then do the opposite.
What kind of horse crap is this!?
The only ones that might garner some sympathy are those who had extreme pain, unbearable, who sought relief legally through prescriptions and beczuse of an addictive personality became addicted. HOWEVER when opioid are taken as prescribed, they have a less than 1% addiction rate. It’s only when peeps on meds take more than their prescription calls for that they get addicted. Too many folks get prescriptions, and drink along with it, and end up taking more than they should - and that is on them- if they had stuck to the dosages prescribed, their chances of addiction would have been extremely low. That % though even though it’s extremely low, does translate to quite a number of folks.
There is however a new drug out that is supposed to replace opioid, but, the article claims it “isn’t as powerful” at stopping pain, so not sure how it’s gonna replace opioids which do have a legit place in pain management for extreme cases. Too many docs though hand them out for mild cases, and to drug seekers.
None will be cured of addiction unless they make the decision to quit. Most do not and many die of this self inflicted disease. Oddly the few that decide to quit have ample government and state and religious and social organizations to help. Those that avail themselves of this might make it.
I have no sympathy for those that do not as they are a menace to our normal society. I have great sympathy for their families that had havoc in their lives because of a spouse, brother, son, daughter, etc. being addicted.
Funny story about a woke social worker that was confronted with reality. She and her husband were our best friends when studying Geology. She was Liberal Arts specializing in rehabilitation of prisoners and he also Geology like me.
We graduated and she went to Angola Prison in Louisiana to practice her training with prisoners. He as I went to the oilfield and the drilling rigs. Years later we meet up in Aberdeen, Scotland during our oil field days. I asked if she felt guilty about leaving Angola and her patients and moving to Scotland? She said, THEY WILL STILL BE THERE WHEN I GET BACK!
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