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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Warren Refloats $100 Billion Opioid Plan

Presidential contender Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) floated a proposal Wednesday to combat America's ever-growing overdose crisis.

The proposal would allocate $10 billion per year primarily for treatment and harm reduction. However, some experts argue that that might not be enough.

Warren debuted her proposal in a Medium post, highlighting the year-on-year decline in life expectancy attributable to opioids, as well as suicide and overdose deaths involving drugs like methamphetamine and cocaine.

Her proposed response is the reintroduction of the Comprehensive Addiction Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, a bill co-authored with Rep. Elijah Cummings (D., Md.). If passed, the bill would allocate $100 billion to fund "first responders, public health departments, and communities on the front lines of this crisis," divided up into ten $10 billion payments over ten years.

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Democrats , money will solve anything.

Anonymous said...

"Presidential contender Elizabeth Warren..."


Fake story. Warren is a pretender, not a contender. Big Difference.

Anonymous said...

Kinda like Maryland that has spent tens of millions of dollars on treatment, harm reduction, etc, just to see overdose deaths increase. Yeah, she'll spend the hell out of YOUR money to try to get herself power. Gotta love politics.

Anonymous said...

I can solve the opioid crisis quicker than anyone in politics. Make heroin legal and narcan illegal.

Anonymous said...

oh didnt she mention its coming out of her pocket

Anonymous said...

Ten times that amount wouldn't be enough.

Anonymous said...

I don't want anything with Cummings' name on it because chances are he's already figured multiple ways to funnel the $$ to his friends in Maryland and elsewhere and at the same time deliver next to nothing to the actual program(s) that will reach the intended population.

Anonymous said...

I want no parts of anything dreamed up by Healty Holly Cummings and his gang.

Anonymous said...

60k in overdoses mostly from heroin coming in from the southern boarder. She is against the wall. 450k die a year from cigarettes. 45k in second hand smoke and 1200 infants die from secondhand smoke. However this is NOT a crisis ???

Anonymous said...


Cheaper, better answer: Build the wall and choke the supply. Win-Win!

But Fauxahontas is struggling to stay 'relevant' in the great 2020 SocialistFreeCrapForAllDemocrat melee. Thus running her mouth about sums that will never get spent for programs that won't exist!