Opioid deaths skyrocket in PA as Trump is unable to contain crisis (but he can golf and tweet)

[Hal-9000]

It wouldn't be an issue if not for Trump. He's not ignoring it like the previous admin, except for a few half-hearted comments.

Remember, it was an issue for the GOP because it was happening to white people.

Fucking hypocrites.

Absolutely he’s ignoring it. Are you dumb?

Well actually, it’s possible that he’s not ignoring since he signed an order that stops people from getting addiction treatment from their health plans, his proposed budget includes slashing funding for treatment, and he continues to try to kill healthcare for millions of Americans.

Trump is building a wall to help prevent this, YOU ARE IGNORING IT.

You got that kid

Trump is currently not building anything, and the only reason he wants a wall is because he’ll look like a moron if it’s never even started

Have you always been an ignorant liar?

Ah yes, inbred. One of the prototypes, that will stand forever as a monument to Trump’s failure.

You said there was no building, why lie? or are you just stupid

 

[Rustic]

Drugs are a personal choice...

Is addiction a personal choice too?

yes it is

Name one person who chose to be an addict?

It’s a personal choice

 

[jon_berzerk]

Drugs are a personal choice...

Is addiction a personal choice too?

yes it is

Name one person who chose to be an addict?

anyone who started taking them for recreational purposes for example

it is called personal responsibility

any recovering addict will tell you that

 

[buckeye45_73]

President Donald Trump is failing miserably in the battle against the opioid crisis.
What a pathetic, lazy President. He should drop that fucking golf club and get to work.
'Worst year,' 'terrifying trend': Opioid, heroin deaths in '17 ravage Central Pa. counties

Yeah and on the trail he spoke about the crises,
did Hillary? no
the press? no
democrats? no

Why do you bring up issues, that make you guys look bad....
this is why trump wins, you try your cheap hit job pieces, but we all know the truth and he puts it out nationally........

no what is the left doing to help the crises


Hint: needle sharing programs and other things that encourage the use do not count.

 

[WillowTree]

A person is a giant pussy when he insists on doing drugs then whines that the Republicans don’t care.

 

[buckeye45_73]

Drugs are a personal choice...

Is addiction a personal choice too?

yes it is

Name one person who chose to be an addict?

When you used the drug....
I've never used drugs....I am not an addict...case closed

 

[TheOldSchool]

It wouldn't be an issue if not for Trump. He's not ignoring it like the previous admin, except for a few half-hearted comments.

Remember, it was an issue for the GOP because it was happening to white people.

Fucking hypocrites.

Absolutely he’s ignoring it. Are you dumb?

Well actually, it’s possible that he’s not ignoring since he signed an order that stops people from getting addiction treatment from their health plans, his proposed budget includes slashing funding for treatment, and he continues to try to kill healthcare for millions of Americans.

Trump is building a wall to help prevent this, YOU ARE IGNORING IT.

You got that kid

Trump is currently not building anything, and the only reason he wants a wall is because he’ll look like a moron if it’s never even started

Have you always been an ignorant liar?

These idiots think Trump shouldn't build a wall, but if he does he should without testing prototypes

Testing them?

What, you gonna bounce some people off of them?

None of those prototypes will be used for anything. Why do you think the "walls" that exist now are so varied?

 

[TheOldSchool]

Absolutely he’s ignoring it. Are you dumb?

Well actually, it’s possible that he’s not ignoring since he signed an order that stops people from getting addiction treatment from their health plans, his proposed budget includes slashing funding for treatment, and he continues to try to kill healthcare for millions of Americans.

Trump is building a wall to help prevent this, YOU ARE IGNORING IT.

You got that kid

Trump is currently not building anything, and the only reason he wants a wall is because he’ll look like a moron if it’s never even started

Have you always been an ignorant liar?

Ah yes, inbred. One of the prototypes, that will stand forever as a monument to Trump’s failure.

You said there was no building, why lie? or are you just stupid

My neighbor built a fence a while back. That doesn't make it a Mexican border wall

 

[deltex1]

President Donald Trump is failing miserably in the battle against the opioid crisis.
What a pathetic, lazy President. He should drop that fucking golf club and get to work.
'Worst year,' 'terrifying trend': Opioid, heroin deaths in '17 ravage Central Pa. counties

Wags? Trumps fault people kill themselves? Humbug...decrease the world population...

 

[Meathead]

Absolutely he’s ignoring it. Are you dumb?

Well actually, it’s possible that he’s not ignoring since he signed an order that stops people from getting addiction treatment from their health plans, his proposed budget includes slashing funding for treatment, and he continues to try to kill healthcare for millions of Americans.

Trump is building a wall to help prevent this, YOU ARE IGNORING IT.

You got that kid

Trump is currently not building anything, and the only reason he wants a wall is because he’ll look like a moron if it’s never even started

Have you always been an ignorant liar?

These idiots think Trump shouldn't build a wall, but if he does he should without testing prototypes

Testing them?

What, you gonna bounce some people off of them?

None of those prototypes will be used for anything. Why do you think the "walls" that exist now are so varied?

I have no idea what you're whining about. I've little doubt that a combination of butt hurt and abject ignoorance is iinvolved though.

 

[percysunshine]

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The opioid crisis is an invented crisis. Global warming didn't work out, so there needs to be something new and more terrible to panic the masses.

 

[Hal-9000]

Drugs are a personal choice...

Is addiction a personal choice too?

yes it is

Name one person who chose to be an addict?

It’s a personal choice

So you can't name one person who chose to be an addict

Did this person choose this

 

[TheOldSchool]

Trump is building a wall to help prevent this, YOU ARE IGNORING IT.

You got that kid

Trump is currently not building anything, and the only reason he wants a wall is because he’ll look like a moron if it’s never even started

Have you always been an ignorant liar?

These idiots think Trump shouldn't build a wall, but if he does he should without testing prototypes

Testing them?

What, you gonna bounce some people off of them?

None of those prototypes will be used for anything. Why do you think the "walls" that exist now are so varied?

I have no idea what you're whining about. I've little doubt that a combination of butt hurt and abject ignoorance is iinvolved though.

That you have no idea what's going on was never in question.

 

[Hal-9000]

Drugs are a personal choice...

Is addiction a personal choice too?

yes it is

Name one person who chose to be an addict?

anyone who started taking them for recreational purposes for example

it is called personal responsibility

any recovering addict will tell you that

Would this person say that?

 

[TheOldSchool]

Drugs are a personal choice...

Is addiction a personal choice too?

yes it is

Name one person who chose to be an addict?

anyone who started taking them for recreational purposes for example

it is called personal responsibility

any recovering addict will tell you that

Hal supports the OP with her every post. No point in arguing.

 

[Hal-9000]

Trump is building a wall to help prevent this, YOU ARE IGNORING IT.

You got that kid

Trump is currently not building anything, and the only reason he wants a wall is because he’ll look like a moron if it’s never even started

Have you always been an ignorant liar?

Ah yes, inbred. One of the prototypes, that will stand forever as a monument to Trump’s failure.

You said there was no building, why lie? or are you just stupid

My neighbor built a fence a while back. That doesn't make it a Mexican border wall

Yawn

 

[TheOldSchool]

Trump is currently not building anything, and the only reason he wants a wall is because he’ll look like a moron if it’s never even started

Have you always been an ignorant liar?

Ah yes, inbred. One of the prototypes, that will stand forever as a monument to Trump’s failure.

You said there was no building, why lie? or are you just stupid

My neighbor built a fence a while back. That doesn't make it a Mexican border wall

Yawn

Yep. I predicted Trump sheep would yawn and not care when the wall never ends up getting build.

 

[Hal-9000]

Drugs are a personal choice...

Is addiction a personal choice too?

yes it is

Name one person who chose to be an addict?

When you used the drug....
I've never used drugs....I am not an addict...case closed

You never had surgery or a toothache? well I have had both

 

[buckeye45_73]

Drugs are a personal choice...

Is addiction a personal choice too?

yes it is

Name one person who chose to be an addict?

When you used the drug....
I've never used drugs....I am not an addict...case closed

You never had surgery or a toothache? well I have had both

yeah I have, got some vicadin......used the proper dosage.....

I mean, people don't take vicadin and then say omg I have to have it all the time....

 

[jon_berzerk]

Drugs are a personal choice...

Is addiction a personal choice too?

yes it is

Name one person who chose to be an addict?

It’s a personal choice

So you can't name one person who chose to be an addict

Did this person choose this

there is plenty of documentation that addiction is a choice

Is addiction a disease, or is it a choice? To think clearly about this question, we need to make a sharp distinction between an activity and its results. Many activities that are not themselves diseases can cause diseases. And a foolish, self-destructive activity is not necessarily a disease.

With those two vital points in mind, we observe a person ingesting some substance: alcohol, nicotine, cocaine or heroin. We have to decide, not whether this pattern of consumption causes disease nor whether it is foolish and self-destructive, but rather whether it is something altogether distinct and separate: Is this pattern of drug consumption itself a disease?

Scientifically, the contention that addiction is a disease is empirically unsupported. Addiction is a behavior and thus clearly intended by the individual person. What is obvious to common sense has been corroborated by pertinent research for years (Table 1).

The person we call an addict always monitors their rate of consumption in relation to relevant circumstances. For example, even in the most desperate, chronic cases, alcoholics never drink all the alcohol they can. They plan ahead, carefully nursing themselves back from the last drinking binge while deliberately preparing for the next one. This is not to say that their conduct is wise, simply that they are in control of what they are doing. Not only is there no evidence that they cannot moderate their drinking, there is clear evidence that they do so, rationally responding to incentives devised by hospital researchers. Again, the evidence supporting this assertion has been known in the scientific community for years (Table 2).

My book Addiction Is a Choice was criticized in a recent review in a British scholarly journal of addiction studies because it states the obvious (Davidson, 2001). According to the reviewer, everyone in the addiction field now knows that addiction is a choice and not a disease, and I am, therefore, "violently pushing against a door which was opened decades ago." I'm delighted to hear that addiction specialists in Britain are so enlightened and that there is no need for me to argue my case over there.

In the United States, we have not made so much progress. Why do some persist, in the face of all reason and all evidence, in pushing the disease model as the best explanation for addiction?

Addiction Is a Choice | Psychiatric Times