things are going to develop to get it under control. i want to ask you the same question i asked a couple days ago. and, again, this is truly a national tragedy. but, you know, two decades ago in this country, you had lots of folks who look like me who were dying in d.c. and chicago, and l.a. in greater numbers than what we re seeing right now as a result of the crack cocaine epidemic that plagued this country. it seems as if we are treating this particular drug crisis differently than we treated that one. why? and i think we are treating it differently, and i think it s because of where it s hitting and who it s hitting. because it can hit anyone, anywhere, any time. that one could, too. and the big thing you have to remember is an overdose and an overdose death is a death, regardless of where it is. and so trying to get that under control through legislation law enforcement. and treatment. this one is focusing more on treatment. there are a lot of parallels between the two
you look at the worst days of the crack cocaine epidemic, and it was worse than that. at that time, it was lock them up and throw away the key, this is different, is that? i think primarily the use of the crack cocaine back then was absolutely illegal. the use of prescription opioids right now is for the most part legal. the epidemic now is largely man made. this is overprescribing. this is aggressive marketing by pharmaceutical companies, and an increased societal acceptance of taking the drugs. so in a sense we can t turn our
from hancock park, that she s thinking about running for president. if she runs, she may have a few problems. of the 535 lawmakers, she s the only one to my knowledge who has written to fidel castro. urging him not to send back a woman who murdered a new jersey state trooper, escaped, fled to cuba. congress passed a resolution asking castro to return her and she wrote a letter to castro, the woman who escaped is a former black panther. she likened her to a freedom fighter and accused her of being a victim of the criminal justicd system and urged castro to not return her to america. the woman, joanne chesimard, remains at the top of the fbi s most wanted list. maxine waters urged castro not to send her back. she falsely accuse the cia of fomenting the crack cocaine epidemic in the inner cities. the argument has been debunked.
turn myself in and thought i thought about the missing black women and chirp. i started thinking about flint, michigan. i started thinking about the crack cocaine epidemic. i started thinking about all the injustice and the trafficking that my people go through. that s why i snapped. i wasn t thinking like, you know, kill, kill, kill. i was thinking white supremacy has to die and the people who benefit from white supremacy are white men. prosecutors say he ll undergo a mental competency evaluation next month and horrifying video to show you. this little girl falling out of a bus in arkansas. the whole thing caught on dashcam of a volunteer fire fighter who happened to be driving behind. he obviously rushed in to help.
person who doesn t know that about heroin? is there a single addict who cares about a public relations campaign? that s a whole different h ball game once you are addicted. i m talking about young kids. of course a lot of kids do not know. they have no idea tucker: they do not know that heroin is addictive. they are in a little medicine bottle. these pills. they look like they re just medicine. tucker: you represent a district that at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, every lawmaker in washington the death rate was about 2 per 100,000. it s over 10 per hundred thousand for opioids. it s a massive scale and you do not hear anyone talking about the supply problem. penalties for people who push this crap into communities. why wouldn t congress tomorrow get behind legislation? to get punitive on this, if it s that serious? i think there s a place for