How do we fix America’s opioid crisis? | NewsNation Prime

No neighborhood is immune to the nationwide opioid crisis, and there’s an economic toll as well as the human toll. Leaders in Arizona are now saying the epidemic cost their state more than $50 billion last year.

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[ErichMoulder]

What happened to personal responsibility? You take drugs classified as ‘addictive’ and you take appropriate measures. Don’t abuse, get off early and get off them by cutting pills in half. Not rocket science. Don’t blame the good folks needing the pain relief.

[angelbankslopez]

What they need to do is make it legal to buy over the counter any percocet you need any Adderall you need and you'll see how the opioid crisis will go down .

[robinsss]

what federal law gives Walgreens pharmacy the obligation to decide whether a customer should have received a
prescription ?

i think this court decision was one of the worst

[snowmiaow]

Legalize them, regulate like alcohol, use the money for treatment and education.

[couturedeana]

How? Just let them take as much as they want. End of problem!

[rapscull]

This guy has known about this for 30 years and has no solutions. His answer was to push it off to the government.

[maxwellsmart]

Leave the pharmacies alone.. go after the street fentanyl importers...!!

[mojojeinxs]

Work in health care I see narcotic abuse with the elderly. Granny better have her oxi on time. One elderly women told me it was her happy pill winked at me and said that is the only thing nice about getting old the drugs. LoL

[tyolvera]

Ibogaine should be legal and im sure it would help better than a settlement fuck them it not on the pharmacy its on the doctors and the drug maker

[ricardoalmanza]

America doesn't have a problem its certain people

[jackreacher]

This is a very easy fix. Have our government stop selling it to the public. No Uzis are made in Harlem. No one here owns a poppie field. This big business. This is the American way....

[joehiden]

You might want to close the borders to begin with to stop the move of Fentanyl. Some Chronic Pain Patients need pain medication, and you must not punish them for the people that abuse them or go on to become addicted. Suboxone is a wonderful treatment for opioid addiction. It stops withdrawal and does not change the way you feel. Treatment needs to be made cheaper and stigma of addict eliminated. Treatment can save your life.

[Oymmit]

run a bunch of intellegence insulting psa's and blame people who don't give you everything you want. especially money for war hardware and resource acquisition. if the system aint broke why fix it?

[cavediver]

Try closing the southern border that will help to slow the flow into the country!

[skywonderly]

Doctors need to stop prescribing it! Even for chronic pain. People can take Tylenol and ibuprofen