AG: Addiction Treatment, Trafficker Arrests Key To Fighting Wisconsin’s Growing Meth Epidemic
https://www.wpr.org/ag-addiction-treatment-trafficker-arrests-key-fighting-wisconsins-growing-meth-epidemic
- Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 4:35pm
Wisconsin’s growing meth epidemic presents new challenges to law enforcement, state Attorney General Josh Kaul said Tuesday in Wausau.
Twenty percent of 2018 drug cases at state crime labs involved methamphetamine, up from only 6 percent in 2010, according to the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Kaul called methamphetamine use a growing problem across the state, where authorities have spent years working to combat an epidemic of addiction to heroin and other opioids.
“When you enforce the laws that relate to one particular narcotic, it’s true that other dangerous ones can pop up,” Kaul said.
Kaul spoke to news media after a visit to an addiction treatment center. He said state law enforcement would need to target traffickers of both drugs. He noted opioid overdoses claimed 900 lives in Wisconsin in 2017. Expanded addiction treatment options, he said, are a necessary part of the solution.
“There are people who have addictions to opioids, to meth and other drugs, and we need to make sure we are doing what we can to get those people substance abuse treatment so that there aren’t the worst possible consequences that result, and instead people are able to beat their addictions and get back on their feet.” he said.
Kaul also spoke in favor of medical marijuana, saying he’d rather see patients dealing with chronic pain be prescribed marijuana than opioid drugs. As attorney general, Kaul joined four other states in filing suit against two Purdue Pharma entities and against Richard Sackler, the company’s former president. The states claim Purdue’s advertising strategy was intentionally deceptive.
“One of the things we’ve alleged in our complaint … is that there was a concerted effort to mislead the public and prescribers about the dangers of opioids — to overstate the benefits of opioids and to downplay the harms that they cause,” Kaul said.
Part of efforts to counter the epidemic, he said, is to ensure the public has accurate information about the risks of any drug they are prescribed.
I wonder who they are going to try and blame this CRISIS on.. Methamphetamine is a legal C-II legend med… but it cost abt $3,000 for a month’s supply and very seldom prescribed. So what drug or issue are they going to try an blame this abuse crisis on ?
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“I wonder who they are going to try and blame this CRISIS on.. ”
They’ll just come up with a new word and link it to opioids… -_-
Secrets of the Dead, on PBS last night Nazi’s use of Pervitin, the perfect name, for a drug that revs you up, to Fight or F*c* in those with testosterone still flowing, what most male users in North America are doing if not mated, fapping themselves raw, because no sane female would get near the jittery, lip chewing, looking for Some Thing, they lost the thread on long ago, in later stages who knows what. In SoCal, stealing anything that can be sold for scrap, including working traffic signs, & Copper out of Anywhere, including Working MRi machines, to turn into the police, working with the scrap dealers. It’s a Useful Med in the right usage, including Military, still. But when the DEA tightened down on base stock, the Red Phosphorus & Lye came out, people I took classes with at a crappy small town school, who I Saw just how much attention they paid to Anything, who “I” wouldn’t eat a sandwich they made, much less ingesting the Drugs they cooked! Bathtub sh*t that literally eats holes in brains, & spins people into homelessness, taking whole families down doing it, like Lab Rats once hooked to the Energy, they’re Worse than the Junkies, who just want to nod off into Oblivion, only do whatever needs done to get there next… Are Far less a Social Problem than Jumped up Lab rats w/holes in their brains, totally washed every building block from there bodies, & permanently screwed dopamine systems ARE a Much greater Social Problem created by DEA tactic, than some White kids getting a Hot Chinese dose of Fentanyl, than ANY Chronic Pain tossed away as used up Workers.
This Stuff is HORRID, creates Zombies, that tear apart Infrastructure, including Power Transmission, Road Safety, & all the health problems coming from living life@11, whilst Not maintaining it.
Lost my Brother to this crap, H.A.T.E. IT!
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