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  • Trump’s Focus on Punishing Drug Dealers May Hurt Drug Users Trying to Quit

    05/14/2025 7:23:35 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 53 replies
    The New York Times ^ | May 13, 2025, 3:28 p.m. ET | Jan Hoffman
    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....