Here in new york city, long in the epicentre of drug use. Heroin overdoses increased for four years. Deaths outnumber homicide. Tonight ill tell you about a radical solution to addressing the prop thats proven effective in other countries, but is highly controversial. Before i get to that i want you to hear some of what donald trump said about americas heroin epidemic after he won the primary. He begins by saying what he state. Mr trump. Please do something. The drugs, the heroin is pouring in. Its so cheap. Theres so much of it. The kids are getting stuck and other people are getting stuck. We are going to end it. We are going to end it at the southern border. Its going to be over. Its nice to thing that building a wall at the mexican boarder as trump proposes would stop the flow of heroin to the united states, but the failure of the war on drugs convinced many people that Law Enforcement is not the answer to addressing americas drug problem. Officials have turned to the softer side o
Were terrorism,ing International Politics and the zika virus, if the president should consider a National Approach to cracking down on doctors who overprescribe opioid medications like oxycontin. , pain pills and then look for a cheaper more powerful high so the governors question was right on the money. Now president said it would be better if governors first Reach Agreement on prescription limits before the issue reached congress but his answer also touched on a shift thats taking on americas approach to deal with drugs and diction. Addiction. Here is what the president said. If we go to the doctors and say dont overprescribe, without mechanisms to deal with the pain that they circulat have or the s they have then were not going to solve the problem because the pain is real, the Mental Illness is there, the addiction is already there. In some case these are underserved communities when it comes to doctors nurses and practitioners. The president was talking about the addiction as, har
Here in new york city, long in the epicentre of drug use. Heroin overdoses increased for four years. Deaths outnumber homicide. Tonight ill tell you about a radical solution to addressing the prop thats proven effective in other countries, but is highly controversial. Before i get to that i want you to hear some of what donald trump said about americas heroin epidemic after he won the primary. He begins by saying what he state. Mr trump. Please do something. The drugs, the heroin is pouring in. Its so cheap. Theres so much of it. The kids are getting stuck and other people are getting stuck. We are going to end it. We are going to end it at the southern border. Its going to be over. Its nice to thing that building a wall at the mexican boarder as trump proposes would stop the flow of heroin to the united states, but the failure of the war on drugs convinced many people that Law Enforcement is not the answer to addressing americas drug problem. Officials have turned to the softer side o
Record 47,000 deaths from Drug Overdoses in 2014. Here in new york city, long in the epicentre of drug use. Heroin overdoses increased for four years. Deaths outnumber homicide. Tonight ill tell you about a radical solution to addressing the prop thats proven effective in other countries, but is highly controversial. Before i get to that i want you to hear some of what donald trump said about americas heroin epidemic after he won the primary. He begins by saying what he state. Mr trump. Please do something. The drugs, the heroin is pouring in. Its so cheap. Theres so much of it. The kids are getting stuck and other people are getting stuck. We are going to end it. We are going to end it at the southern border. Its going to be over. Its nice to thing that building a wall at the mexican boarder as trump proposes would stop the flow of heroin to the united states, but the failure of the war on drugs convinced many people that Law Enforcement is not the answer to addressing americas drug p
Heroin epidemic. It came during a meeting with the nations governors at the white house, where the topics were terrorism,ing International Politics and the zika virus, if the president should consider a National Approach to cracking down on doctors who overprescribe opioid medications like oxycontin. , pain pills and then look for a cheaper more powerful high so the governors question was right on the money. Now president said it would be better if governors first Reach Agreement on prescription limits before the issue reached congress but his answer also touched on a shift thats taking on americas approach to deal with drugs and diction. Addiction. Here is what the president said. If we go to the doctors and say dont overprescribe, without mechanisms to deal with the pain that they circulat have or the s they have then were not going to solve the problem because the pain is real, the Mental Illness is there, the addiction is already there. In some case these are underserved communitie