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Rep. Welch says help is on the way for opioid crisis
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The problem with most programs that attempt to deal with addictions is that they often do NOTHING more than enable addicts to continue in their addiction. Ask any recovering alcoholic or drug addict and they will tell you that in order to recover, one must first "hit bottom." Unfortunately for most, that bottom is death. I was once a treatment professional, and I have little faith in recovery programs; most are only 10% effective! PREVENTION IS THE ONLY CURE! Complete and total eradication of drug-dealing networks, whether they are illegal dealers, or crooked doctors, is the only way to stop the opioid crisis. Those who deal in death should face death for doing so.
ReplyDeleteHit bottom, or face consequences they don't want to face. Too few consequences for the dealers who deal to support their habit. Maybe a few consequences would actually help them hit bottom so they would be open to treatment. Seen it in my own family, and it took consequences to finally wake the individual up to change.
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ReplyDeleteTrump is the only leader with the courage to publically acknowledge the definitive solution to prevention.
When you're married to H you're married for life.
Yeah, I knew the Trump supporters would jump on this. Most addicts are using prescription drugs. Until Trump is willing to tackle Big Pharma and our broken for-profit health care system, nothing will change. Blaming immigrants and building walls will do nothing; this problem is "home grown!"
DeleteOK, let's set the facts straight for our perpetual, Trump derangement troll. Addicts will use ANY opiate available to them, heroin, Fentanyl, OxyContin, etc. The majority of heroin, and Chinese synthetic opiates enter the U.S. across the Mexican border. Locking down the border is necessary to halt the influx and curtailing the violent drug war in Mexico. Beyond that, trafficking must become a capital offense. Traffickers deal death as the profit outweighs the risk. That must change. But don't expect Welch to do any more than throw around other people's money while staging photo ops. Fool.
ReplyDeleteSO after the wall is built on the mex border what will prevent "them" using the Canadian border. Sounds like we need a dome.
DeleteRE:what will prevent "them" using the Canadian border.
DeleteThe exact same thing that prevents it from happening now. Canada has a very vigilante customs dept. and is it not plagued with the corruption Mexico suffers with.
For what it's worth, I have hiked and hunted extensively around the Chiricahua and Huachuca Mtns. You can not fathom how remote these areas are. Like Hannibal, I could march a column of elephants across the border with no interference.
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DeleteTrump derangement troll? Me and the other 60% of America! I have believed in capital punishment for drug dealers for DECADES; Trump is a newbie at best! There once was another nation that tried to keep the "others" out by building a wall, and it still stands as a monument to naive ignorance. It's called the Great Wall of China, and it was built to stop the Mongols from invading. The Mongols, and their descendents, ruled China until 1949. So much for stopping "them" from coming across the border. If those areas are as remote as you say, a wall is useless; we build a 20 foot wall, they bring a 21 foot ladder! All Trump's border wall will EVER amount to is a futile, and ridiculously expensive gesture to appease racist and zenophobic bigots!
Delete8:13 you still sore bernie lost ?
ReplyDeleteI think what 8:13 is saying is, it's just too hard and nothing will work, so we shouldn't try. Let's just give up, if Bernie isn't behind the idea, it won't work and it's stupid. Oh, and if you don't like Bernie, you're a racist and a bigot. I can say this because I'm a peace loving, inclusive, liberal. You're not - so you are obviously a racist bigot. You see, name calling is ok when I do it, because I'm good.
DeleteNo, 8:00 am, that's not what I'm saying. As usual, the "all-or-nothing" approach of the concrete-thinking ideologue comes shining through. The wall is stupid, period. It will cost a ton of money, and the illegals and drug smugglers will find a way over, under, or around it. Oh, and it isn't "name-calling" when it's true, and I'm not a liberal. I didn't mention Bernie, either; that's YOUR prejudice!
DeleteI vote for a wall... Oh that's right I already did when I voted for Trump.
DeleteKeeping out illegals and not paying for their welfare, medical, etc and for them to send money home will more than pay for the wall, as long as we send the ones here home, which I vote for as well.
As long as he keep pushing for that wall I will keep voting for him.
I can say I agree with Michael Savage, Language Borders and Culture would turn this country around.
If we keep out drug smugglers as well, that's a big bonus.
If we could send Peter Welch back with some of them on the bus, that would be an extreme bonus...
DeleteI'm all for the wall, we know that Trump might have over stated it a bit, but the majority of the people that come from Mexico, are murders, rapist and thieves... the Thieves are the ones scamming our Welfare system and sending the money home or bringing their brothers, sisters and kids to do the same. Very we documented in the news and in how poorly these Sanctuary cites and states are doing. They are going down fast financially and with crime. I have no problem with immigrants coming here the legal way, once the choose the illegal way they already are a criminal.
ReplyDeleteYes the system needs to change, but so does many of our other systems in this country, but we as US citizens wait them out.
As for the Opioid Crisis, tougher laws, mandatory imprisonment for 2nd or 3rd strike might help. But in short Peter Welch I'm sure feels better at night knowing he took our tax dollars and threw them at the problem, then wrung his hands that he fixed it... while having liberal judges that just let them out with a hand slap and go home feeling good about themselves, that they saved someone from jail.
You might want to talk to the Chinese about the effectiveness of a wall. Why should we imitate stupid?
ReplyDeleteWe're being stupid enough with our attitude toward addictions. To be consistent, we should criminalize suicide-- jail those who attempt, pour millions into law enforcement to hunt down and arrest would-be suicides.
It would also help if we realized how badly Richard Nixon fooled the country with his War on Drugs-- which was nothing more than a way to render the opposition (the anti-war and civil rights activists) impotent.
Nixon was really good that way-- rather than have the country realize he was the one who got us out of Vietnam (and thereby tag him as The President Who Lost Vietnam), he distracted us with the POW-MIA campaign. It has worked wonders, not all of them good.
POW/MIA was Nixon's, eh? That figures. I remember some of the members of that movement back in the 80's; drunk as hell at local bars, ranting about secret Chinese shoe factories run by the CIA, and other conspiracy theories. None of them were Veterans, and when I asked them which family member of theirs was POW/MIA, they all said "No one." One friend of mine's father WAS MIA, and he eventually told all of them to shut the hell up! I trace the birth of Trumpism back to them. Miserable right-wing alcoholics with no real connection to anything, hijacking a legitimate organization as an excuse to wave the flag and gripe!
DeleteAddicts, illegals all the same as mosquitoes, swat all you want, they just keep coming. Even the best net won't keep them out.
ReplyDeleteWalls went out of popularity in Germany.
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