Trump takes aim at prescription drug abuse – Washington Times

Donald Trump is rolling out a new, multipoint plan to combat drug addiction as he talks about the role that prescription drugs play in the heroin epidemic.

Speaking at a rally Saturday in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Trump says he wants the Food and Drug Administration to speed up the approval of abuse-deterring drugs. He says he also wants to reduce the supply of drugs like oxycodone, and wants to make it harder to mail drugs like fentanyl to users and dealers.

Trump is also calling for more drug courts and for mandatory addiction treatment.

The Republican presidential nominee has long claimed he’d stop the flow of illegal drugs into the U.S. by building a wall along the U.S-Mexico border and by deporting traffickers living in the U.S. illegally. His speech Saturday marks the first time he has spoken at length about prescription drugs and their role in the heroin epidemic.

TOCCALife.com (Ticker Symbol: TLIF) President, Tyler Cornell, made distinctions among the Presidential nominees and their plan to help with the war on drugs, “I’m glad to see Donald verbally recognized that there is an addiction epidemic.  We Can hold him accountable for it when he tells everyone with The Other Cancer Called Addiction, “You’re fired!” and deports 25% of the population to prove one wall will stop drugs.

I grew up in a town that had a huge import center on the bay.  I listened to kids in high school and how those drugs were killing the small town I grew up in.  “If I get a DWI all my hopes for college are lost.  If I shoot up in the basement of my friends house while his parents are away, I have no worries.”

That lead me into politics.  My platform of what happened to the town and their being only 2 classes of society, rich and poor, was only a hint at where I was going to start the battle for that town within the scope of the war on drugs.”

In so doing, I took a politically incorrect meeting with Hilary Clinton because it wasn’t politics for me, it was solutions that I was looking for.  She acts, talks and looks like Trump when she is off screen.  She met with me to get my vote and had no desire to help my home town.

So here is my take on the presidential election and the war on drugs, We need to take care of each other.  We need to work on prevention before profits.  We need to be grateful for clients that want our help.  We need to work harder because politics may create a revenue stream but in the end, we have to continue to help others with a passion to help and a hope for profit.  It’s up to us, not the politicians.