An Executive Summary Of Josh Shapiro's Campaign

Recent reforms can curb the opioid epidemic. Yes, health care professionals have realized the complex problem and they now understand the problem and what needs to be done. According to CQ Researcher, “Experts see some progress in the fight against opioid painkiller abuse. After peaking in 2012, the number of prescriptions written for opioids declined 12 percent between 2013 and 2015, according to IMS Health, a market research company. Symphony Health Solutions, a data company that studies the pharmaceutical industry, found an 18 percent drop in that period.”

Under the plan more funding would be put into treatment, recovery and education. The plan would also create support tools and advocacy programs, improve connection bewteen correctional systems and addiction services. " We

In “How About Low-Cost Drugs for Addicts?” (1995), Louis Nizer argues that drug addiction is a serious problem and we are losing the ability to gain control over drug addiction. Nizer suggests the government should create clinics that provide drugs free or at nominal cost and be staffed by psychiatrists. The benefits of the new approach will push the mob to lose the main source of its income, the drug dealers will run out of business, and the police or other law enforcement authorities would be freed to take care of other crimes. Nizer also believes that free drugs will win the war against domestic terrorism caused by addicts. On the other hand, Nizer provides some of the opposing arguments that providing free drugs would consign a person to

Prop 36 has to find a better way to organize programs so that it suits better, to one’s recovery process. Through research on policy reform other (Open Society Foundation, 2013) has other alternatives to the drug policy reforms, which include decriminalization: The removal of criminal sanctions for minor drug offenses. In some cases civil sanctions, such as fines, are imposed instead of jail time. Depenalization: The retention of drug offenses as a crime, but with discretionary enforcement based on practical considerations and community needs.

The repealing of ObamaCare clearly has the potential to adversely affect a quarter million people, who are currently receiving treatment for opioid based addictions. Trump used talk on the topic of drugs and crime to support his primary stance on border control and immigration. He used a rhetoric that mixed a number of topics and presented his political agenda in a popular

While holding the Senate floor, Cruz strived to convince his fellow politicians to cut funding for Obamacare. In his first two years as the senator of Texas, Senator Cruz had not only achieved an almost flawless voting record, he had also become the main conservative voice on a number of policy issues, spanning the complete field of influence from fiscal to social to foreign policy matters. Whether it was through floor speeches, media appearances, legislation and initiatives, or even harnessing the power of social media, Cruz led the front line for the conservative movement in fights pertaining to Obamacare, spending, guns, debt, immigration and foreign policy

The history of needle exchange programs originated from Europe in the early 1980s, and later immigrated to the North East side of the United States. Jon Parker, who was a former IV drug user, started the U.S’s first illegal NEP. “There were many oppositions toward NEP’s which prohibited federal funding until there was proved research that it will reduce HIV, while not increasing drug use” (Des Jarlais, 2006). This led to the extensive development of NEP’s due to lack of funding and an vast spread of HIV “During this opposition and denial of funding “4,400- 9,700 avoidable HIV infection occurred” (Heimer, 1998). The first legal NEP in the United States opened in Washington State in 1988 (Des Jarlais), this program had support from Pierce COunty Health Department.

The research that is done on the misuse of opioids can educate Michigan residents on their prescription uses. People may believe that it won’t happen to them, but it can happen to anyone. It will raise awareness on the opioids being misused and how to not be depended on prescriptions. C. Background and Rationale for the Research, Inquiry, Project. a. The National Institute of Drug Abuse states what legal and illegal drugs make up opioids.

"But I think we should be really alarmed. The drug overdose problem is a public health problem, and it needs to be addressed. We need to get a handle on it. "(Stein, 2017). There has been little to no improvement in terms of physical health and life longevity as a result of The War on Drugs.

I. Importance: As American deaths from drug overdoses continue to rise in the United States, the nation is faced with a public health crisis so profound that in October 2017, President Trump declared the opioid epidemic to be a national public health emergency (Merica). President Trump’s declaration came after numerous studies indicating the danger opioid addiction posed; for example, a 2016 study entitled “Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths—United States, 2010-2015” claimed that drug overdose deaths “nearly tripled during 1999-2014,” reaching a startling high 52,404 deaths in 2015 (Rudd, et al). These statistics are more than just disturbing revelations regarding the opioid crisis; they are evidence of a serious problem that is rapidly affecting the lives of more and more Americans every year. Death by overdose is not the only public policy concern, however, as millions of Americans are also addicted to prescription opioids.

Michael R. Bloomberg, who bypassed his own presidential candidacy, is going to endorse Hillary Clinton. It is an unexpected to the republican as well to the Trump because Mr. Bloomberg was elected the mayor of New York City as a Republican, but he became independent later.

Essentially, the war on drugs has demonstrated to be an exorbitant expense. The federal government in 2002 alone spent $18.822 billion in the form of expenditures such as treatment, prevention, and domestic law enforcement (CSDP, 2007, p. 54). However, given that the drug war has garnered meager results, this investment may be interpreted as a waste of taxpayer dollars. Alternatively, the money that has been allocated to arrest and detain drug offenders may also be a source of contention. CSDP (2007) “Of the 1,846,351 arrests for drug law violations in 2005, 81.7% (1,508,469) were for possession of a controlled substance.

When people take these synthetic heroin pills, they do not feel as though it is a drug addiction as much as it is a way for them to deal with pain, over-stimulation, and as a tranquilizer. Today, we are currently facing an epidemic with drug addiction and continuously trying to solve the problem with a war on drugs. “The U.S. spends about $51 billion a year enforcing the war on drugs, and arrests nearly 1.5 million people for drug violations, according to Drug Policy Alliance, a drug policy reform group” (Ferner). Since the United States spends so much money on this epidemic, the numbers should start to go down, but it is instead doing the opposite. It is easy to figure out the numbers through doctors, “Increases in prescription drug misuse over the last

Implementing these policies come with little or no cost associated with them. The federal government provides free online opioid overdose training for law enforcement and medical personnel. There are several grants available from the manufactures of Naloxone and Narcan. Most Police Departments already provide gloves and masks to their Officers and the training needed is also free through the Drug Enforcement Administration. Also available at low cost is implementing an ANGEL type program.

Within the last decade, however, the repeated failures of the war on drugs at home and overseas, and the rising tide of criminal violence associated with the huge profits in drugs, had caused some of these law and order types to change their thinking. The mayors of Baltimore and Philadelphia, the police chief of San Jose, former Secretary of State George Schultz, conservative columnist William F. Buckley, Jr., and a surprising number of other public figures have now expressed their belief that legalization would have to be an improvement upon the present situation, so desperate has it become. As a small start, said drug policy critic Morton Kondracke in The New Republic, "marijuana might be legalized so that law enforcement could concentrate on cocaine and heroin." (Kondracke, 1988:19)