so let me get this straight- opioid addicts get a carve out but

[mopinko]

if you have cancer, chronic illnesses, brith defects, any other pre-existing conditions you can go fuck yourself.

wow, how they change their tunes when it is white people w a drug problem.

[lunasun]

1. If you are not saying WOW just WOW you must be a republican

[MoonRiver]

2. And yet a lot of them, equal percentage wise to Dems, will have those medical problems.

Somehow they think Chump will save them though!

[maxsolomon]

3. rural whites with a drug problem

playing to the base, but they're barely paying attention now.

by the way, GOP, the cities are overrun with junkies, too, and you oppose safe injection sites.

[mopinko]

7. so much of the aca was about figuring out what works.

about non-ideological approaches to problems.
i'm sure all that shit will go out the window.

[Demsrule86]

4. I head Graham's new plan ...block grants for the states so they can get rid of health care.

And same cuts for medicare...so thousands...millions in the end would die. I think it won't pass.

[atreides1]

5. Block grants

With no strings attached!

[BannonsLiver]

13. Whenever you hear a conservative say block grant

It's never a good thing. It's like their shorthand for "cornholing the public".

[Demsrule86]

20. It means give this mess to the states so they can kill it and we don't get blamed.

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. Where's those LittleActivists?

Oops, LittleLobbyists!

Sorry for messing up your name, brave youngsters!

[Skittles]

8. sorry, what is a carve out?

is this the new bill, a bone for the red states?

[mopinko]

10. yup. $45 m earmarked for opioid addiction treatment.

something i would be a lot less upset about if we actually had good treatments for addiction. but we never invested in that because "we" thought it was just a brown people problem.

[Skittles]

11. yup

with the rural white folk it is an addiction problem whereas with brown folk it is a criminal issue

[loyalsister]

17. Maintenance

Opioid addiction can be maintained without being as damaging as it is currently. I think they should allow addicts to have access via pain clinics. They don't have to deal with criminals and doses can be monitored and provided safely. It seems logical to me that removing the most dangerous and destructive elements would allow people to live productive and comfortable lives with an opioid addiction.

Portugal has had a lot of success with decriminalization.

[mopinko]

18. true, but i dont know how many people would go for it.

what happens when they want more and more? does the pain clinic give it to them?

if we hadnt wasted billions on a failed war on drugs, we would have good treatments.

[loyalsister]

19. not enabling

Maintaining. Remove the demand for abstinence and provide doses to keep them from suffering through withdrawal. It could help people live as healthy and productive lives as possible with a medical addiction rather than demonizing them.

[malaise]

9. And if you use ganja

there are private prisons

[Leith]

12. You're Just Now Noticing That?

It reminds me of how 30,000 losing their jobs in coal mining is horrible and has to be fixed, but over 200,000 retail employees losing their jobs at a time isn't even noticed. Millions of lost jobs in manufacturing is just good business.

Yeah, I don't get it, either.

[mopinko]

14. oh no. that was my first thought

when the opioid thing started getting press, and was mentioned repeatedly in the health care debate.

thugs who fought mental health coverage all the sudden singin w the choir on opioids? yeah, white people problem now.

[Leith]

15. Perhaps We Should Commission a Billboard

near high opioid consuming areas. It could be a picture of Nancy Reagan with the caption "Just Say 'No' "

Sorry, I didn't mean to be so snarky. I like your posts.

[mopinko]

16. ikr?

like i said in another post, if we had effective treatment (ahem, mm) it wouldnt stick in my craw quite so much.