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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWH has finally found a solution to the opoid crisis: "Just say No."
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/06/kellyanne-conway-opioid-drug-czar-325457President Donald Trumps war on opioids is beginning to look more like a war on his drug policy office.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has taken control of the opioids agenda, quietly freezing out drug policy professionals and relying instead on political staff to address a lethal crisis claiming about 175 lives a day. The main response so far has been to call for a border wall and to promise a "just say no campaign.
Trump is expected to propose massive cuts this month to the drug czar office, just as he attempted in last years budget before backing off. He hasnt named a permanent director for the office, and the chief of staff was sacked in December. For months, the offices top political appointee was a 24-year-old Trump campaign staffer with no relevant qualifications. Its senior leadership consists of a skeleton crew of three political appointees, down from nine a year ago.
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Much of the White House messaging bolsters the presidents call for a border wall, depicting the opioid epidemic as an imported crisis, not one that is largely home-grown and complex, fueled by both legal but addictive painkillers and lethal street drugs like heroin and fentanyl.
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WH has finally found a solution to the opoid crisis: "Just say No." (Original Post)
DetlefK
Feb 2018
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logosoco
(3,208 posts)1. This is fitting for an administration that has the ideals of the 80s.
They never notice facts. Like the fact that this did not work then and will not work now.
But it fits their ideas and their image of Ronald Reagan!
turnitup
(94 posts)2. did nancy return
from the dead?
GWC58
(2,678 posts)3. And an Attorney General that has
Reefer Madness in the extreme!