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| Exclusive: Trump finalizing opioid plan that includes death penalty for dealers |
| 2018-03-16 |
CDC says there were 64,000 U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2016, mostly involving opioids, a 28 per cent jump from 2015
Trump suggested Saturday in Pennsylvania that drug dealers who broadly push lethal narcotics should be treated like any other mass killer in federal courts
Plan expected to be rolled out Monday in New Hampshire also will make it easier for Medicaid to pay for inpatient drug rehab
And it will tell the DOJ to seek mandatory-minimum sentences in more drug trafficking cases that involve opioids like the synthetic drug Fentanyl
Some in Congress and many in the public health field worry that the ambitious plan could be a budget buster with little chance of actually being implemented |
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