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packman

(16,296 posts) Fri Oct 27, 2017, 12:26 PM Oct 2017

Trump Cons Again - His Opioid 2 cents per addicted American War

With nearly 2.6 million Americans addicted to prescription opioid painkillers or heroin, the Trump administration declared a public health emergency on Thursday, unlocking roughly two cents per person in new funding for the effort.

Trump’s official declaration, initially promised on August 10, allows the executive branch to dip into the Public Health Emergency Fund. This fund holds only $57,000, as The Intercept reported in August. No other funding was immediately made available by the declaration.

.... Trump’s order only encompasses the Public Health Services Act, and its $57,000 of available emergency cash. That will get you about 12 doses of the auto-injector Evzio, which delivers the overdose-reversing drug naloxone for around $4,500 per pop.

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/27/trump-opioid-crisis-public-health-emergency/

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Trump Cons Again - His Opioid 2 cents per addicted American War (Original Post) packman Oct 2017 OP

Criminal photo-op SHRED Oct 2017 #1

If there was a way to funnel money to connected donors... Thor_MN Oct 2017 #2

"I alone can fix it" - with my speech dalton99a Oct 2017 #3

Just saying ... GeorgeGist Oct 2017 #4

In my region Cirque du So-What Oct 2017 #5

SHRED

(28,136 posts)

1. Criminal photo-op

Reply to packman (Original post)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 12:44 PM

Oct 2017

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)

2. If there was a way to funnel money to connected donors...

Reply to packman (Original post)

Fri Oct 27, 2017, 12:51 PM

Oct 2017

there would be funding. Absent a convenient way to siphon funds, without appearing to give care and money to addicts, they can't be bothered. Easier to allow drug companies to rake in cash from illegal prescriptions. Besides, addicts don't vote in large numbers.

The flip side is that private prisons are a huge profit making deal, so keeping them full of minorities that tend to vote Democratic is a win-win for rethugs.