Alabama has the highest rate of opioid prescribing in the country
Oklahoma is the third highest prescriber of long-acting and extended-release opioids
Tennessee was the third highest prescriber of opioids.
Mississippi is the fourth highest prescriber of opioids.
Louisiana is the fifth highest prescriber of painkillers
What pain are they treating? Physical or emotional.
When will the press and the Dems learn that a republican cannot be shamed? Neither can anyone who supports Trump. The entire administration and its supporters are extremely proud of their ignorance, bullying, disregard for the law, racism and misogyny. They’re all like a little kid who’s proud he made doody in the toilet. These are damaged people who don’t give a rat’s ass about anyone else, the US Constitution or anything remotely “fair”.
Gee, you’d almost think keeping millions of poor people in a drugged, zombie-like state is something the Trump administration feels is to their advantage.
Putting Kelly Ass Conjob in charge of the largest public health crisis facing us right now tells you how much these soulless heartless assholes care about it. It’s not like there are no experts in NIH, CDC, and elsewhere. You know, people who actually understand the science of addiction and how opioids are marketed, distributed, etc…?
Conway is not a human being. She is a monster.
The problem is that the DC Dems and Media etc treat her like she is human with human values.
She isn’t.
And all five states voted for Trump, enough said.
Did the Mango Menace pick Kellyanne because he thought she might know something about opioids or because she looks like she’s on some?
Is an “opioid cabinet” similar to an “opium den”?
And @hoagie, the experts at CDC and NIH are being ignored, not invited to the important conversations and planning, fired, asked to leave, or getting out on their own because of Trump and his gang. So, there aren’t many left and the administration is smarter than the experts anyway.
Yup. That was my point. They are all “low tax” states run buy wingnut “fuck you” politics. Education is poor, higher ed is costly due to tax cuts, healthcare is frowned upon and investment in people is nonexistent as any money that could have been used to that funded tax cuts too. Folks in those states have a high misery factor. They live in a world that is the antithesis of a place like Norway, Trumps preferred foreign country. And Norwegians are the happiest people in the world.
Kreepy Anne Conjob is wildly unqualified to do any of this—which is, of course, why she was chosen.
There’s always this approach …
“Politico noted that the acting director, Richard Baum, hadn’t served in the office “for decades” when he was tapped for the position.”
I think that’s a misread. The Politico article says,
“The office’s acting director, Rich Baum, who had served in the office for decades before Trump tapped him as the temporary leader, has not been invited to Conway’s opioid cabinet meetings, according to his close associates.”
It’s difficult to remember sometimes that some of 'em actually think Hopes 'n Prayers ™ are an effective strategy
The photo accompanying this article appears by mistake. It was supposed to accompany the article on the White House’s methamphetamine response.
an Administration-wide plan to focus on treatment and recovery; prevention and education, and; law enforcement and interdiction.
Focus by diffusion. How very Zen of them.
Complete and thorough incompetence. Does anyone really trust this bunch to get North Korea policy right? We live in dark and dangerous times.
And, btw, wasn’t Jared supposed to have solved this by now?
Is the picture at the head of this article of an opioid abuser?
“I haven’t talked to Kellyanne at all and I’m from the worst state for this,” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) told Politico, adding: “I’m uncertain of her role.”
Pretty obvious to me that her role is to make sure that the Federal government does nothing that would reduce the amount of prescription opioids sold in the US.
