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On the mid-August day when President Donald Trump first called the nation's opioid epidemic a "national emergency," plaudits from the state's congressional delegation were quick to follow. Sen. Sherrod Brown, DOhio, said the designation was overdue.
On Wednesday October 4, the news carried an apocalyptic version of our country with its chaotic national and foreign policy politics; its epidemic of Americans massacred by fellow Americans fatally attracted to assault weapons; and climate change denial in the face of a trifecta of record-breaking hurricanes. Our world is closer to nuclear war than at any time since the 1960s.
Sasha Abramsky's previous book, The American Way of Poverty - how the truly poor in our country struggle to survive in our thankless nation, ruled by greed-ought to have been a wakeup call to our common humanity. Four years later, with inhumanity entrenched within the Trump presidency, his ignorant base, and the Republican sycophants in Congress, it's easy to scream out in frustration at how we've become such any uncaring nation.
A local drug task force isn't waiting for the opioid epidemic to be declared a state or national emergency. They already are working to clear the streets of drug dealers, leaders of the Trumbull Ashtabula Group Law Enforcement Task Force said.
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President Donald Trump's warning of "fire and fury" against North Korea if it threatens the United States were "strong," former Sen. Joe Lieberman said Wednesday, but he is concerned about Kim Jong-un developing the capability for a bioattack on the United States. "We've tried for years and years, really decades with diplomatic language and a lot else with the North Koreans and it hasn't worked," Lieberman, the co-chairman of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Biodefense, told CNN's "New Day" about Trump's tough talk.
President Donald Trump is scheduled to receive a briefing on the ongoing opioid crisis on Tuesday, joined by Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price and acting Director of National Drug Control Policy Richard Baum while spending time at his home Bedminster, New Jersey. Trump pledged to make fighting the opioid crisis, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has deemed an epidemic, a top priority during the 2016 campaign, but some opioid treatment advocates have been disappointed by the Trump administration's steps to combat the problem.
Little more than outrage or scandal emanates from the White House nowadays. As David Remnick of the New Yorker wrote recently, "Every day, Trump wakes up and erodes the dignity of the Presidency a little more."
A unique public-private agreement returned three seized homes used by drug traffickers back to the community, where a non-profit organization will renovate and sell them at an affordable price with the stipulation that the owner reside there. There was no mystery about what was occurring at the three multi-family rental houses on Park Avenue in Rutland, Vermont: strangers dropping in around the clock, police responding to neighbors' complaints, discarded syringes turning up in nearby yards.
Erie County legislators are still grappling with how to spend a half-million dollars to quickly combat the lethal opioid epidemic. How to spend the money has been very controversial within the Legislature.
In a hall packed with Iowa voters, the presidential candidate looked the middle-aged truck driver in the eye and vowed to fight the opioid crisis that killed his only son two years earlier. "He promised me, in honor of my son, that he was going to combat the ongoing heroin epidemic," Moss said of the January 2016 interaction.
Hennepin County Sheriff Richard Stanek has taken himself out of the race for the Republican nomination for governor in 2018. Stanek writes that in the past few years, he's worked to address the crisis of untreated mental illness, reduce violent crime, build trust among residents and law enforcement, and fight the opioid epidemic.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage, center, speaks to reporters at a news conference accompanied by Kellyanne Conway, an advisor to President Trump, far left, and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, right, after a meeting to discuss the state's efforts to fight the opioid epidemic, Wednesday, May 10, 2017, at the State House in Augusta. Gov. Paul LePage kept his focus on fighting Maine's opiate addiction epidemic Tuesday when he said he supports a pending bill that would make dealing drugs that cause an overdose Class A manslaughter.
The tough-on-crime policy announced Friday by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions runs counter to the recent emphasis in Appalachian states on treatment and less prison time for low-level drug offenders. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul opposes the directive.
U.S. agriculture officials do not actually know if they are doing enough to protect people and poultry from avian influenza, a government watchdog reported Thursday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is still relying on poultry producers to voluntarily follow security guidelines, and many still are not doing everything they are supposed to do to protect their flocks, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office says in the report .
The Cherokee Nation filed a lawsuit against pharmacies and drug distributors on Thursday, alleging that the companies have not done their part to curb the opioid epidemic that has gripped the tribal community. Among the companies named are pharmacies such as Walmart, CVS and Walgreens.
Drug houses sprung up next door to the small, well-kept homes where working-class families struggled by. Weeds and rot slowly claimed abandoned houses like the one across from Dr. Will Cooke's brick offices near the railroad tracks.
The multistate manhunt for the suspect in a random killing that police say he recorded and posted to Facebook is entering its third day. The multistate manhunt for the suspect in a random killing that police say he recorded and posted to Facebook is entering its third day.
Donald Trump Jr. is facing criticism for tweeting in the hours after Wednesday's London attack a months-old comment from London Mayor Sadiq Khan that terror attacks are part of living in a big city. Some of the youngest victims of the nation's opioid epidemic are children under age 5 who die after swallowing opioids.