New Mexico Holds Summit on Opioid Drug Crisis

(US News & World Report)

Public health experts are looking for additional solutions to New Mexico's opioid addiction crisis at a summit in the state capital.

Public health experts are looking for additional solutions to New Mexico's opioid addiction crisis at a policy summit in the state capital.

State Rep. Deborah Armstrong helped organize the Thursday gathering and hopes it will help enhance and expand successful approaches to combatting the opioid crisis, especially if more federal funding were to become available for New Mexico.

President Donald Trump last week declared opioid abuse a national public health emergency without promising additional spending.

Overdose death rates in New Mexico have hovered well above the national average, even as the state has implemented pioneering policies to rein in fatalities.

Trump's commission on the opioid crisis called Wednesday for more drug courts, more training for doctors and penalties for insurers that dodge covering addiction treatment.


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To use terms common in System Theory -

the US health care system is one of the biggest ClusterFvck's in the world.


To mix the subject of Chinese fentanyl, with the legit pain treatment needs of tens of millions of Americans - how are those 2 subjects connected ?

Only in the Make Work Drug War.

At least there's one state that is recognizing the NEED for cannabis as a means of combating opioid abuse, perhaps lowering the flood of fentanyl patches making its way into the SW USA, then being distributed, perhaps lowering the death rate.

Drug overdose deaths in the United States have more than doubled over the past decade.

The mere discussion is worthy. Big Pharma distributors (McKesson, Cardinal Health naming two) knowing distributed millions of pills in the last 5 years. DEA has issued no suspension orders against a distributor for nearly two years.

What has your state done?