First lady calls opioids 'worst drug crisis' in US history

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

First lady calls opioids ‘worst drug crisis’ in US history

By DEB RIECHMANN
November 28, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Melania Trump is calling the opioid epidemic the “worst drug crisis in American history” and says she is struck by how it has touched the lives of so many people.

Mrs. Trump is speaking Wednesday about the crisis at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. She says the stigma of shame must be lifted from addiction and calls for more public discussion about it so people can get help.

President Donald Trump has called it a “national health emergency” and she says his administration is committed to fighting the opioid epidemic. Mrs. Trump decries how the opioid crisis has “truly taken hold of our country.”

Nearly 48,000 people died last year from overdoses involving opioids. Addressing the opioid epidemic is a pillar of the first lady’s Be Best youth initiative.

https://apnews.com/974e585c84c84cca875c135b467c0d31

[spanone]

1. the worse lady...

[ck4829]

2. And yet, how many of them take money from opioid makers?

[GoCubsGo]

3. A broken clock is right twice per day.

Although, this one is actually a digital 24-hour "miltary" model, instead of the usual 12-hour clock.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. Really! What about the

dope in the White House?

[Codeine]

12. Well played.

[Initech]

5. Well, we can thank the billion dollar pharmaceutical companies who sponsor her husband for that.

[Just a Weirdo]

6. Actually the worst drug crisis

is Trump and Melanoma. They make us want to take drugs just to get by being subjected to an idiotic Resident.

[maxsolomon]

7. actual treatment professionals and activists have been trying to

lift the stigma of shame from addiction for approximately ever, and republics have been the ones standing in the way of enacting a rational, fact-based national drug policy.

look at the hysteria that surrounds needle exchanges or safe injection sites.

wake the fuck up, Melania.

[jls4561]

8. Speaking at LIBERTY UNIVERSITY??

Their school motto is "We graduate bigots"

[Guilded Lilly]

9. She is totally ineffective no matter what spews from her mouth. Her repulsive spouse has a...

complete disconnect with reality, morality and decency. He breathes, he lies. Melania has never had one ounce of credibility or sincerity since the moment she "plagiarized" Michelle Obama.

[Solly Mack]

10. Just say be best no.

[TexasBushwhacker]

11. Now that it's affecting white people n/t