Tuesday, March 29, 2016

The New Epidemic

  Even I think this is probably a massive waste of money. People on heroin need physical help indeed but the root is the mind, it is an extremely confused, sad, and hopeless individual that gets into drug addiction.

Guardian UK: White House to commit $116m to heroin and opioid abuse epidemic - Obama administration will announce new measures centered on prevention and treatment, not crime-fighting, as part of wider roll-back of ‘war on drugs’
The White House is committing $116m to support treatment, with nine actions that include expanding access to care and drugs for combatting overdoses. It also proposed $7m in US justice department funding to increase community policing.

2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

More $$ for the failed war on drugs.

Jim Sande said...

It reads more like a way to send more money to police departments. I can't see how that amount of money spread out over the country would do anything. One can only hope that somehow a few lives are spared here by getting resources to the right people.