Trump declares opioid crisis national emergency

[Morphine Prince 109,684]

"The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I’m saying officially, right now, it is an emergency," Trump said at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. "It’s a national emergency. We’re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis."

It was not immediately clear what prompted Trump's change of course. But he called the crisis "a serious problem the likes of which we have never had."

"You know when I was growing up they had the LSD and they had certain generations of drugs," Trump said. "There’s never been anything like what’s happened to this country over the last four or five years. And I have to say this in all fairness, this is a worldwide problem, not just a United States problem."

Experts said that the national emergency declaration would allow the executive branch to direct funds towards expanding treatment facilities and supplying police officers with the anti-overdose remedy naloxone.

It would also allow the administration to waive some federal rules, including one that restricts where Medicaid recipients can get addiction treatment.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/trump-declares-opioid-crisis-national-emergency-n791576

 

[Yuuri 21,636]

I'm actually shooked. He knows something about science and the community.

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

ARTPOP and artRAVE visuals are shook 

[Ethan 2,051]

6 minutes ago, TimisaMonster said:

ARTPOP and artRAVE visuals are shook 

Why? How? Opioids are narcotic pain killers 

 

and I think he's going to do more harm than good from this announcement. Banning opioid pain killers and making it harder to obtain prescriptions is not going to help the crisis. It is going to create more overdoses from fentanyl laced heroin and create an even worse problem than we have right now.

As someone who battles an ongoing addiction to opioids, I'm scared what this may mean for harm reduction in this country