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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: O'Malley discusses ways to fight opiate crisis. [View all]elleng
(130,895 posts)7. No clue, right,
OMalley said he would push for a federal investment of $12 billion to help states provide the continuum of care that many are lacking to keep people on a safe path after detox or hospitalization and prevent relapses. He also would create a national strategy on fentanyl the synthetic opioid much more powerful than heroin and has claimed more lives than heroin this year within 100 days of taking office, he said.
Pointing to his record as mayor in Baltimore, where he expanded drug treatment availability by 20 percent, OMalley said, I promised not only to improve policing, but to improve treatment and Ill be damned some of these government programs dont actually work We saved a lot of lives.
We struggled a lot, frankly, he added. We switched our goal to reducing overdose deaths.
OMalley said the most important indicator of whether a person is at risk for overdosing is if they have presented themselves at an emergency room with a near-miss once. That point, OMalley said, is where intervention needs to happen.
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I've already seen too many people with real pain be denied pain meds because...
aikoaiko
Dec 2015
#15
Prescription Painkiller Deaths Fall Almost 25% in Medical Marijuana States
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2015
#27
So why isn't he talking about it at all? He wants to reduce opiate overdoses, we have
Bluenorthwest
Dec 2015
#32