White House program to aim at combating rise in heroin deaths

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Sun Aug 16, 2015 9:58pm EDT

White House program to aim at combating rise in heroin deaths

WASHINGTON

With a rise nationally in fatal heroin overdoses, the White House on Monday will announce a plan pairing law enforcement officials with public health workers in an effort to emphasize treatment rather than prosecution of addicts, the Washington Post said.

Citing two senior officials, the newspaper reported on Sunday that the program would initially be funded for $2.5 million by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and cover 15 states.

The plan would focus on tracing the sources of heroin, where a deadly opiate additive blamed for a rising share of recent overdose deaths is being added and who is distributing the drug to dealers, the newspaper said.

The Post said the initiative came in reaction to a sharp increase in heroin use and deaths, particularly in New England and other Northeastern states, which will be covered in the plan.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/17/us-usa-drugs-heroin-idUSKCN0QM04520150817

[fredamae]

1. hahahahahah..now That's Funny

Especially on the heels of This:
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-approves-oxycontin-children-young-11-n409621

[Hydra]

2. Legal drug dealing to kids

Isn't that the height of hypocrisy?

[fredamae]

3. They don't even Try to Hide

any of "it" anymore - do they?
They think it looks good, but their efforts Do NO Good...in Fact they're Breeding the Next Generation of Addicts.
The govt Cannot logically take Both positions simultaneously or can they...given the Under-informed folks out there?

Sheesh

[Hydra]

4. I think I'l quote Nixon

"It's not illegal when the President does it."

And yes, it makes me sick that we're drugging people up nearly their entire lives via big pharma for profit, then killing people who dare to do it off the system. That's called killing your competition, not a war on "drugs."