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    Default Opioid commission member: Our work is a 'sham'

    The Republican-led Congress has turned the work of the president's opioid commission into a "charade" and a "sham,".

    "Everyone is willing to tolerate the intolerable -- and not do anything about it," said Patrick Kennedy, who was one of six members appointed to the bipartisan commission in March. "I'm as cynical as I've ever been about this stuff."
    President Donald Trump declared the opioid epidemic a 90-day public health emergency in October, but did not make any new funding available. In November the president said he would donate his third quarter salary to the Department of Health and Human Services to help fight the crisis.

    Critics say the declaration did virtually nothing to change the status quo and that overdose deaths have continued to mount in the months since. The public health emergency declaration was, in fact, set to expire on January 23, but as the government was headed toward a shut down on Friday, Acting Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Eric Hargan renewed the national public health emergency for another 90 days.
    "This and the administration's other efforts to address the epidemic are tantamount to reshuffling chairs on the Titanic," said Kennedy. "The emergency declaration has accomplished little because there's no funding behind it. You can't expect to stem the tide of a public health crisis that is claiming over 64,000 lives per year without putting your money where your mouth is."

    Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”


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    cheap fentanyl laced heroin is the answer to pain pill restriction.

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    Nobody believes anything Trump says.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    Nobody believes anything Trump says.
    Except for these backwoods hillbillies:

    Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”


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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    Nobody believes anything Trump says.
    Obama had 8 years to do something about it!

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    Guarantee you there was a big photo op that went along with the launching of the Commission

    Remember the special Trump Committee to study voter fraud, belly up, was disbanded couple weeks ago, it got the big photo op send off also

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Obama had 8 years to do something about it!

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    Kind of funny, now we got a fog catcher falling back on the standard, "it's Obama's fault."

    Obama did, passed three legislative efforts and approved millions in appropriations, unlike the current President, who can't get legislation thru nor approved funding

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Obama had 8 years to do something about it!

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    in what year did it start idiot?

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    in what year did it start idiot?
    Look it up on Wiki, we all know you can do that at least!

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    Kind of funny, now we got a fog catcher falling back on the standard, "it's Obama's fault."

    Obama did, passed three legislative efforts and approved millions in appropriations, unlike the current President, who can't get legislation thru nor approved funding

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic
    Fuck me, it knows how to use Wiki as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Look it up on Wiki, we all know you can do that at least!

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    why do you hate that people now have quick access to facts?


    because facts fuck you hard

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    they hate facts
    Damo hates you so much for embarrassing him that he's going to send Billy to kill you!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Damp hates you so much for embarrassing him that he's going to send Billy to kill you!

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    billy wont kill me


    billy in fact knows my personal info


    I sent him care packages when he was in Iraq


    Billy has PROVEN his word means something


    You never have

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