Thank you, @POTUS, for taking these critical steps to end the quiet epidemic of substance abuse. H

[riversedge]

Hillary had led several Town halls about the epidemic of drug--heroin use. So glad to see this.

Hillary Clinton ‏@HillaryClinton 6h6 hours ago

Thank you, @POTUS, for taking these critical steps to end the quiet epidemic of substance abuse. http://hrc.io/1NV86oI -H


https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/10/21/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-public-and-private-sector



The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 21, 2015


FACT SHEET: Obama Administration Announces Public and Private Sector Efforts to Address Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Use

Prescription drug abuse and heroin use have taken a heartbreaking toll on too many Americans and their families, while straining law enforcement and treatment programs. Today, the President will travel to West Virginia to hear directly from individuals and families affected by this epidemic and the health care professionals, law enforcement officers, and community leaders working to prevent addiction and respond to its aftermath.

As part of today’s event, the President will announce federal, state, local and private sector efforts aimed at addressing the prescription drug abuse and heroin epidemic. These include commitments by more than 40 provider groups – representing doctors, dentists, advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists and educators -- that more than 540,000 health care providers will complete opioid prescriber training in the next two years. In addition, CBS, ABC, the New York Times, Google, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and other companies will donate millions of dollars in media space for PSAs about the risks of prescription drug misuse produced by the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids.

Today, the President issued a Memorandum to Federal Departments and Agencies directing two important steps to combat the prescription drug abuse and heroin epidemic:

Prescriber Training: First, to help ensure that health care professionals who prescribe opioids are properly trained in opioid prescribing and to establish the Federal Government as a model, the Presidential Memorandum requires Federal Departments and Agencies to provide training on the prescribing of these medications to Federal health care professionals who prescribe controlled substances as part of their Federal responsibilities.............

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[Fumesucker]

1. Substance use and abuse will never end, it can't even be completely stopped in prisons

You could turn the entire country into one giant prison and you won't end substance abuse.

Not to mention that alcohol (an addictive "substance&quot kills more than twice as many Americans as all "drugs" put together.

[murielm99]

2. Instead of a nice, informative post,

you have to add an unflattering picture of HRC.

Why don't you just post your own OP if you want to bash Hillary? You are not helping your candidate with these antics.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. He has a point- prohibition doesn't work.

The drug war needs to be called the failure it is and ended, not just rebranded with more money thrown at it.

[riversedge]

7. She never said anything close to prohibition.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Wait... I thought this thread was supposed to be about Obama?

Hmmm.

Anyway, if you're talking about Hillary, buried in between all sorts of lofty rhetoric and billions of dollars in giveaways to "faith based" organizations, you can pretty clearly infer that it involves both increased prosecution of people like Richard Paey (who are arrested for taking "too much" pain medication) AND even tighter controls on prescribers, who already let cancer and other patients suffer because they live in terror of the DEA-

which, by the way, shakes out in the real world to prohibition.

It's a prohibitionary approach. It's slapping very expensive lipstick on the pig known as the drug war.

She needs to say those 6 words that Sanders has already said: The Drug War is a Failure.

[Fearless]

15. "You could turn the entire country into one giant prison and you won't end substance abuse."

Pretty sure this is the statement they were referring to.

This has nothing to do with Hillary.

Well minus her opposition to decriminalizing marijuana... but I mean that's barely relevant... right?

[Fumesucker]

4. I've done that too, no one is interested, it's a big yawn

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027270234

The reason I added the picture of Hillary is to point out the hypocrisy of someone who consumes an addictive and dangerous recreational drug but wants to stop others from doing the same thing.


The drug Hillary was consuming in that picture kills about twice as many Americans as all other recreational substances put together.

[LuvLoogie]

6. Except that Hillary is not talking about prohibition.

She's talking about treatment. That's why it's called substance abuse/addiction.

[riversedge]

8. It was disruptive and rude to add that pic. and you know it

[Warren DeMontague]

12. It exposes the hypocrisy of people who think booze is funny but support the failed drug war.

As such it was totally on topic.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. because prohibition is a failed harm-increasing disaster

end the war on drugs.

[TheKentuckian]

9. End the stupid and failed drug war not make it harder for suffering people to get relief.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. Thank you.

Exactly.

[Warren Stupidity]

13. really. This current campaign is horrible to both chronic pain sufferers and addicts.

And if the intention is to actually reduce overdose deaths, they should look to Vancouver and Portugal for answers, instead of pursuing the same failed policies of the past 80 fucking years.

[Capt. Obvious]

14. The epidemic is ravaging my state

My neck of the woods especially. It used to be just junkies overdosing but now crime and violence is spiraling out of control. The shootings and murders were bad but they only happened at night in one general area. We just had one at lunchtime at a park.

[TheKentuckian]

16. End the stupid and failed drug war because what you see is the results of it.

All of this nonsense is probably the fruit of the lobby for the labs combined with generations of stupid worldview that cannot even grasp efforts that do not work.
These are making a killing processing these drug tests sick and suffering folks are forced to take and pay for to make people like you think SOMETHING is being done.
What do you think happens when a high deductible plan meets these asinine mandates?