Doing the same thing about overdoses and expecting different results
“There is something going on here that we, as a nation, are devouring drugs — prescription and illegal drugs at rates not seen in humanity — not seen anyplace else on the planet Earth,” said Sen. Cory Booker .Cheryl Healton, founding dean of the School of Global Public Health at New York University and a witness at the hearing, replied: “That is a very difficult question.
“We have people dealing with a lot of traumas,” Chapman said. “And because of our unique form of capitalism, you could lose your job in a heartbeat and find yourself struggling to survive on the streets.”The opioid epidemic that ravaged residents in red states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Kentucky was precipitated by jobs lost when coal mines and auto assembly plants closed, and other jobs were shipped overseas to cut costs.
Of the billions of dollars earmarked for disrupting the drug supply line and reducing demand, I haven’t heard of anything being set aside to deal with the hopelessness and despair that seem built into the American way of life. Nothing to stop the pain of becoming homeless or losing a job because of an economic system that operates to take money from the working class and funnel it to the rich.
This is what Booker was trying to get at during the Homeland Security Committee hearing. Get beneath the surface, take a hard look at how people are being mistreated in this country. People in pain will seek relief even if it kills them — and even kill themselves so that they never hurt again.
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