“300 people are dying from heroin overdoses a week in this country, 90% of it is coming over the southern border… We’ve got to stop it.”—@KellyannePolls
1) Most of that 90% is coming in through the ports and at
legal entry points. If you want to stop it from coming in, start there.
2) How is a wall, that will take years or more to build (including eminent domain battles in court), going to address an immediate problem?
2a) Drones go over walls and fences. Tunnels go under them.
3) Let’s step up drug education and treatment programs in
this country!
Most people
choose to take these drugs (initially, because once you’re addicted it’s no longer a real “choice.”)
4) People who don’t use don’t die of an overdose.
I’ve been given prescriptions for drugs in this class after dental procedures. I go home and rip them up.
OTOH, someone who’s an addict will get it somewhere, somehow,
5) Doctors who prescribe or start treating in a hospital (where patient had little choice in their meds) need to monitor and follow up with their patients better. Get them off of it as soon as they can, prescribe safer alternatives.
6) Medicinal marijuana may be an alternative for some chronic pain.
Like what I’ve said about immigrants: You won’t eliminate a problem unless you address the
source of the problem.
If life wasn’t so miserable in northern triangle countries, these people would stay home.
If you keep people OFF opioids, those people won’t die of an OD.
If you reduce the demand for opioids, the market would dry up and smuggling wouldn’t be as profitable.
In other news, sanctions on Putin’s friend Deripaska we’re quietly lifted yesterday afternoon. Did they think no one would notice? Big mistake.
