Manchin on drug czar nominee: Over my dead body

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) says he will not allow President Trump's nominee for drug czar, Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA), to be confirmed.

[jpell]

Tell the CIA to stop bringing in heroin and cocaine. Problem solved.

[briankoski]

Marino just withdrew his own nomination.
Good call.

[serec]

Lmao everyday's a crisis since trump took office

[bearrussian]

Well well well... where is popcorn?😄😄😄

[radwulfeboraci]

Tell Putin to stop dumping lethal grade opiates into the west. What kind of pusher would sell something that kills his customers in months instead of years? A terrorist that's who.

[issacdavis]

I was put on oxycontin as a minor after a severe leg injury, addiction for 10 years almost killed me . I'm very blessed to be alive I lost my cousin now the lawyers and big pharmaceutical are going to have big profit off of all this and I'm going to be left broken and damaged like I am today. Its a truly unbelievable story. I was a guinea pig and possibly the first kid in America put on this BS. According to the timeline. 16 years later now I am still going to the Dr.... Today. They humiliated me, and continue to not help.

[themusicaljunkie]

And just like that.. Marino withdrew his nomination.. but yet fellow progressives will still hate on him.

[vidsbyme]

You should really know what you are voting for, no? Don't blame your staff for your failure. Responsibility comes from the top.

[Iowarail]

You don't tell people running the government that, they will do it.

[monkeygraborange]

"Manchin on drug czar nominee: Over my dead body"

*That* *works.*

[marktwain]

Hello I’m a white conservative and I voted for Donald trump! How are you liking your lower taxes and cheaper heathcare

[denniskinch]

I understand there's a problem with over prescribing of opioids in the last few years and I get it that you should yell it out loud but just remember this...Every time the DEA and Congress get together to "fight the drug problem" they go after us, the patients who suffer from actual rare diseases that are extremely painful. They scare the shit out of our doctors and pharmacies and further create an "under-prescribing of pain meds, of which the opioids are the best. I know you think you're always right, enough to publicly, confidently rant and rant about a subject but in this case, you need to research more.

The last time this happened (3 years ago) our meds got interrupted for 3 months while the pharmacies and doctors came up with more, new restrictions and limits to which a patient can get opioids. In my case I have a rare bone marrow disease which fractures the bones in my spine - very, very painful. My doctor got me on the "cancer pain" program which allowed me almost the level I need for pain, but the 3 month interruption was almost not do-able. As an advocate for people with these painful diseases, of which there are MILLIONS of us (prob due to pre-ERA times) and the horror stories from the patients and what they had to go thru 3 yrs ago were heartbreaking. We usually have 12-15, 000 suicides a yr., mostly due to lack of enough meds- (Long story of why, you should look into it) so the 20-30, 000 OD's from meds isn't as big a deal to us.

Also, our numbers are included in the numbers of heroin and street addicts, which if you separated them would change things, as far as what the actual emergency is here. So please, when yelling and screaming about this "epidemic", try to remember the real pandemic. The under-treatment of chronic, painful, rare disease patients, all because of the DEA needing to show they are doing something and worthy of their jobs. To fact check the numbers go to the gov't site, Nat'l Institutes of Health. Yes the gov't says there are more than 50 MILLION of us!

[wutsityuhhuh]

CNN gets on the YouTube news section with literally 200 views at this moment. A video put out by Alex Jones with almost 300K is nowhere near the trending section. Makes sense. Thanks YouTube. 💓

[agustasister]

I'm SURE HELLAEY ROTTEN CALIGULA CAN SRRANGE THAT EASILY

[rampidzombies]

Some people actually need this shut like I've been in 8 car accidents n no not my fought but instead of surgery with 40% success and me being 24. I rather have a pain killer in my case.

[korkalba]

Lol Over my dead body he says, Lol These democrats dont have a leg to stand on. They have no pull anywhere! lol