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Related: About this forumTrump is at risk of blowing it on opioids, a member of his own commission warns
Source: Washington Post
Trump is at risk of blowing it on opioids, a member of his own commission warns
By Greg Sargent October 23 at 9:34 AM
As early as this week, President Trump is set to declare the opioid crisis a national emergency. Trump telegraphed this when he recently told reporters that he would soon have a major announcement on the massive opioid problem, and people inside the White House are now leaking word that this announcement will herald an all-hands-on-deck push to combat the epidemic.
But members of Trumps own handpicked commission to combat the epidemic arent nearly as confident, Im told. They are increasingly worried that the Trump administration will not actually follow through with a robust response, even if he does go before the cameras and declare the crisis a national emergency, and they are increasingly annoyed by the efforts of people inside the administration who are resistant to such a response, one member of the commission says.
In a surprisingly blunt interview with me, Patrick Kennedy, the former congressman from Rhode Island who is a member of the Presidents Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, candidly described the mood on the commission as one racked by pessimism about the presidents willingness and ability to follow through with a response that matches the scale of the human disaster that has unfolded.
The commission is set to release a final report of recommendations for combating the crisis on Nov. 1, and the worry is that it wont be adopted, Kennedy tells me.
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By Greg Sargent October 23 at 9:34 AM
As early as this week, President Trump is set to declare the opioid crisis a national emergency. Trump telegraphed this when he recently told reporters that he would soon have a major announcement on the massive opioid problem, and people inside the White House are now leaking word that this announcement will herald an all-hands-on-deck push to combat the epidemic.
But members of Trumps own handpicked commission to combat the epidemic arent nearly as confident, Im told. They are increasingly worried that the Trump administration will not actually follow through with a robust response, even if he does go before the cameras and declare the crisis a national emergency, and they are increasingly annoyed by the efforts of people inside the administration who are resistant to such a response, one member of the commission says.
In a surprisingly blunt interview with me, Patrick Kennedy, the former congressman from Rhode Island who is a member of the Presidents Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, candidly described the mood on the commission as one racked by pessimism about the presidents willingness and ability to follow through with a response that matches the scale of the human disaster that has unfolded.
The commission is set to release a final report of recommendations for combating the crisis on Nov. 1, and the worry is that it wont be adopted, Kennedy tells me.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/10/23/trump-is-at-risk-of-blowing-it-on-opioids-a-member-of-his-own-commission-warns/
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Trump is at risk of blowing it on opioids, a member of his own commission warns (Original Post)
Eugene
Oct 2017
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Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)1. He's pretty much fucked up everything else.
Why should this be different?
People dying from overdoses are doing the republicans a favor.
msongs
(67,420 posts)2. gotta have opiods to deal with our bone spurs pain nt