up and i intended to. that s a huge step forward. we ve had over 70,000 deaths this year that are a direct result of the abuse of fentanyl. being involved in being introduced into other drugs, not just opioid but cocaine as well and for china to label it a controlled substance means that anybody who is caught exporting fentanyl to the united states or anywhere else can be prosecuted under chinese law. heather: yeah. the theft of intellectual property is at the real nub of the trade dispute, the chinese have been stealing our technology for decades and they have been forcing american companies to share their blueprints, their coating everything with china and then they copy the product. heather: huge headlines coming out over the weekend, i would
personally and president trump was equally strategic in imposing imposing the tariffs on chinese import because he purposely avoided taxing consumer goods that would harm consumers at the lower end of the economic scale, he imposed them on imported industrial goods and chinese cars, chinese manufactured cars, he s trying to increase american jobs not harm the american consumer. heather: there are also other things that chinese apparently agreed to concede today label fentanyl, synthetic opioid, cited in thousands of drug deaths, they will do it as controlled substance, also that we still need to talk about intellectual property damage, also technological theft along with all tariff discussions. yes, i m glad you mentioned fentanyl, i forgot to bring that
since 1999, brooke, suicides have increased 30% in this country. it s pretty remarkable. almost 4% just over the last year alone. what is the underlying problem here? too many medications and too much stress in the society. people self-medicating. whatever it may be, despite how much we re investing in healthcare, we don t have what we should show for it in terms of life expectancy. quickly. those three states where it s worse, the worst? why? biggest thing really seems to be the synthetic opioids. you ve heard of these, the fentanyls, the people addicted to these medications, and all of a sudden a more powerful synthetic opioid comes on to the market. people think they are getting their usual stuff, whatever it might be, and something that can be ten times more powerful, even 100 times more powerful is what they get and that causes people to overdoerks ase, and sometime
country includes a 30% reduction in prescribing over the three years and we are already seeing less prescribing. on the matter of fentanyl i beg everyone who has a platform to start informing america about this. they claimed 29,000 plus american lives last year. we have more people dying from drug overdoses than breast cancer or gun violence or plane crashes, certainly things that get a ton of attention and rightly so. but fentanyl is a synthetic opioid being brought to our country increasingly from china and mexico. the president is asking the senate to pass it back and put it on his desk for signature, that would have enhanced and advanced electronic data on packages that come from china, for example, through the u.s. postal service. by that carriers are already compelled to list the sender,
synthetic opioid, it s also returning a supreme court decision from a year ago that left many felons back onto the streets. armed career criminals. instead, moving forward with legislationis to drastically cut mandatory minimums and give liberal judges more discretion to deviate further, it s very disappointing. we shouldn t be focused on reducing sentences, we should be focusing on prisonso reform. everyone in prison is therefore a reason, there s a good chance they are going to commit future crimes if they don t get a skill or education or drug treatment, that s fine. prison reform is very different from sentencing reductions. tucker: if you are going to reduce sentences for criminals, youor would think he would focus on marijuana users or low-level drug users, why would you reduce the sentences for large-volume drug traffickers was pushing