Trump plans 'major briefing' on opioid crisis

[bucolic_frolic]

Source: Reuters

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has scheduled what he called a "major briefing" for Tuesday on the epidemic of opioid drug use in the United States, a health crisis that kills more than 100 Americans daily.

In the midst of a two-week getaway at his golf club in New Jersey, Trump will meet with Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to discuss the matter. Trump frequently mentioned the opioid crisis as a presidential candidate, but has given it less public attention since taking office in January.

A commission created by Trump to study the matter urged him last week to declare a national emergency to address what it called a crisis involving the epidemic use of opioids, framing its death toll in the context of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

The commission, headed by Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, recommended a series of steps Trump could take on his own without Congress. It called for waiving a federal rule that restricts the number of people who can receive residential addiction treatment under the Medicaid healthcare program for the poor and disabled.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-opioid-idUSKBN1AO18A

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Let me guess ... we are to be tested twice a week, we have to pay for the tests, violators will be
put in pens and executed on the 30th of every month.

[Still In Wisconsin]

1. So in other words he's gonna go in front of a camera and spew some unrehearsed stream of conciousnes

blather. "Our plans are really terrific, terrible problem, Mexicans bringing it in, throwing bags of it over the wall, New Hampshire, and did you know I won the election?

[NCjack]

3. He will tell us about how he beat Hillary, and how he was cheated on the majority vote.

Nothing on opioids, except "Just say No."

[Freethinker65]

2. Amusing that the topic of illegal drug use is probably something Trump actually has experience with

[Crowman2009]

7. I wouldn't be surprised if he was snorting coke at Studio 54.

A lot of those greedy pricks in NYC back in the day were snorting cocaine like it was another food group.

[SummerSnow]

22. Here he is at studio 54 back in the day

[hadEnuf]

4. Maybe he's going to invade New Hampshire.

[FSogol]

5. Maybe he's going to bomb New Hampshire.

:Shrug:

[bucolic_frolic]

15. We're all New Hampshire now

[hadEnuf]

19. Yes, drug infested den dwellers.

And Trump thinks he is the sane one....

[shraby]

6. Wonder what news about him is going to drop today?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. It'll be muscular policing and hard time but not harm reduction, undoubtedly. . . . nt

[nolabear]

9. I don't suppose he'll urge stopping overprescribing and supporting pain management research.

He'll go off on Mexican Drug Lords and how nobody supports the police and how it rose under President Obama and what a hell hole New Hampshire is and how marijuana use leads to opioid addiction.

And illegal immigrants, the main cause of drug addiction.

I could weep.

[Akoto]

23. I hope he doesn't do that. Pain management specialists at the UoMiami saved my life. n/t

[nolabear]

24. Apparently he didn't do anything. Unless I missed it there was no public briefing.

And yes, I'm benefitting and so is my daughter in law from good pain management.

[louis-t]

10. "So we will be building more private prisons....."

[smirkymonkey]

25. You've got it!

I'm sure that is exactly the plan. He doesn't give a damn about people who are suffering from addiction. He just wants to lock up as many people as possible.

[charliea]

11. I mis-understood 'major' briefing

I thought it meant that his presidential briefing materials would consist of TWO pages!

[NobodyHere]

12. Maybe we'll start testing congress for drugs

[Botany]

13. Will he talk about his cocaine and sex parties w/underage girls?

Or what he did @ Studio 35?

[AtheistCrusader]

14. he'll make some vague association with states that have legal marijuana.

[Yavin4]

16. He'll ramp up mass incarcerations

Jail for everyone!

[TheFrenchRazor]

30. yep; all it is is a tool for the 1% to keep everybody else in line and under their control. nt

[keithbvadu2]

17. Christie? It should be headed by Rush Limbaugh who knows where to find Oxycontin.

[SergeStorms]

18. So he's stealing Jared's thunder?

That was supposed to be Jared's domain, along with every other duty a REAL president usually performs himself.

I wonder what Jared and Ivanka will have to say about this? "But Daddy, you promised Jared HE could do that! That's SO UNFAIR!" This will probably break poor little Ivanka's heart. No sex for daddy THIS weekend!

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Apparently there was no "briefing"

per the updated article -

Trump had earlier announced he would give a "major briefing" on opioid drug use but instead gave a few brief comments on the subject while also warning North Korea it would be met with "fire and fury" if it threatens the United States.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-opioid-idUSKBN1AO18A

Apparently his spent more time on the "fire and fury" bullshit than on a crisis happening right under his coke-snorting nose.

[madinmaryland]

21. So he's going to talk about what Major Frank Burns

plan is. Burns would probably get a high up position in the tRump admin!!

[They_Live]

26. He might be thinking about Opie

from the Andy Griffith Show.

[Eugene]

27. Major briefing: We must stop the flow of illegal drugs across the Mexican border!

Source: The Guardian

Opioid crisis: Donald Trump rejects calls to declare national emergency

At ‘major briefing’ on epidemic, president says ‘strong law enforcement is absolutely vital to having a drug-free society’

Jessica Glenza in New York
Tuesday 8 August 2017 22.40 BST

At an event Donald Trump had billed as a “major briefing” on the opioid crisis gripping America, the president on Tuesday stressed that “strong, strong law enforcement” was vital and rebuffed an official call to declare a national emergency.

Some had expected Trump to to declare such an emergency after his opioids commission force described this move in recent days as the “first and more urgent recommendation”.

Instead, Trump’s prepared remarks focused on enforcement stopping the international influx of illicit drugs and alluded to the Mexican border.

“We’re also working with law enforcement officers to protect innocent citizens from drug dealers that poison our communities,” Trump said. “Strong law enforcement is absolutely vital to having a drug-free society.

-snip-

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/08/opioid-crisis-donald-trump-briefing-national-emergency

[uppityperson]

28. And "just say no"

[TheFrenchRazor]

29. yay!!! more War On Drugs!!!!! not. nt