Author: LaNdo <[email protected]>     Reply to Message
Date: 3/24/2018 10:17:18 PM
Subject: RE: Just need to share this somewhere...

Just a side note here for the opiod/opiate epidemic hitting America right now:

If Trump or any other legislators out there want to do something to help curb this epidemic, they need to consider universal health coverage for Opiate Replacement Therapy. 45-60 million Americans are uninsured and that group happens to be the group that has the highest use of heroin and fentanyl. If uninsured, it would cost most of them about $600 per month to stay on suboxone, which isn't exactly realistic. You can send all of the drug dealers to the electric chair that you want, it won't stop users one percentage... but if everyone had affordable access to proven working prescriptions like Suboxone I guarantee you would see a massive decrease in overdoses and addiction.

They have also shown, in states that have legalized marijuana, that opiate dependancy and overdose rates have gone down as well. Not just a coincidence. Weed helps too.

Just food for thought.
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