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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 10:55 AM Sep 2016

Hillary Clinton has a $10 billion plan to stop the heroin epidemic. Donald Trump has some slogans.

Clinton has detailed specific policies to address America’s current drug epidemic. Trump has made vague promises.

Updated by German Lopez @germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Sep 21, 2016, 10:30a


Donald Trump has called the US’s opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic “a tremendous problem.” But as with most Trumpisms, the acknowledgement of this problem has not led to a proposed, concrete solution. Instead, Trump has vowed to build a wall that will stop the flow of heroin into the US — an idea with no evidence behind it — and said that he’ll spend some unknown amount of money to help drug addicts.

Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, does have a specific plan for the epidemic. In fact, she has a plan that attempts to address not just opioids but other drugs as well, from cocaine all the way to alcohol and marijuana. It adds up to a huge proposal, costing $10 billion and with specifics detailed on Clinton’s website.

This is yet another example of perhaps the big difference between the Trump and Clinton campaigns: While Trump does a lot of sloganeering for the issues of the day, the Clinton campaign has actually done the work to compile a dizzying number of policy proposals to address these problems.

But it’s opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic awareness week. Given that, it’s worth taking a close look at what the candidates want to do to address the opioid painkiller and heroin epidemic — a public health crisis that contributed to a record number of drug overdose deaths (more than 47,000) in 2014. (And that doesn’t count the tens of thousands more deaths attributed to alcohol, or the hundreds of thousands attributed to tobacco.)

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http://www.vox.com/2016/9/21/12973740/trump-clinton-opioid-heroin-epidemic
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Hillary Clinton has a $10 billion plan to stop the heroin epidemic. Donald Trump has some slogans. (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2016 OP
Another 'war' on drugs DustyJoe Sep 2016 #1

DustyJoe

(849 posts)
1. Another 'war' on drugs
Wed Sep 21, 2016, 12:31 PM
Sep 2016

Guaranteed to make cartels happy, shoring up their prices will be well received, by them.
Why does 'been there done that', 'just say no' need a redux ?

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