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Trump’s Ridiculous Solution For Opioid Crisis: Tell Kids ‘Drugs Are Bad, Mmkay?'
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3:30Now PlayingWhen it comes to solving some of the nation's most complex issues, President Donald Trump truly thinks outside the box. It's why he plans to handle North Korea's aggression with "fire and fury," and it's why, on Wednesday, the POTUS said that in order to tackle the drug problems facing Americans, we should simply tell kids how bad drugs are. Trump made his comments during a pit stop on his two-week golfing spree at a New Jersey Golf Club. There, sitting next to Chris Christie and the rest of the opioid task force, Trump gave his sage advice.
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“The best way to prevent drug addiction and overdose is to prevent people from abusing drugs in the first place. If they don’t start, they won’t have a problem. If they do start, it’s awfully tough to get off. So if we can keep them from going on and maybe by talking to youth and telling them: ‘No good, really bad for you in every way.”
The President reasoned that simply by telling children that drugs are bad, mmkay they won't ever start doing them. And if they don’t start doing drugs, we won’t have anyone addicted to drugs, prescribed or otherwise!
Boom. Crisis over. America is great again.
I mean, wow, why didn't anyone else think of that??
But seriously, we've tried that old gas before, and it didn't work then; now that we're faced with a unique opioid epidemic, an epidemic began by big pharma and your family doctor.
If these kids are getting addicted to opioids after a broken arm or chronic illness, feeding them the same tired advice used to battle the evils of smoking a little weed won’t do a damn thing.
The reality here is that the opioid crisis needs real, concentrated effort to end. It means rehabilitating thousands who found themselves addicted after taking exactly what the doctor prescribed. It means treating teens who raided their parents’ prescriptions for a quick high. It means regulating big pharma far more strictly, and forcing the FDA to do its damn job and pay attention to these highly-addictive drugs. It means prosecuting pharma companies and doctors who preyed on isolated communities, minority groups, and yes, even children, to push their profits.
If Trump were truly interested in ending the crisis, he wouldn’t be parroting good old Nancy Reagan without credit, he would be declaring the crisis a “state of emergency,” a recommendation from his own special counsel that he chose not to do.
Of course, like in most other cases, Trump doesn't really care about the outcome, he just likes to hear himself talk.
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