I'm going into this weekend resolved and committed to tackling the opioid crisis. I flew home to Hawaiʻi after introducing the Opioid Crisis Accountability Act, the companion bill to @BernieSanders' opioid bill. It’s time to end the opioid crisis—here’s how we’re going to do it:
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Have drug companies reimburse the cost of the crisis—$78 billion a year, according to the CDC. Multi-billion dollar profits from a prescription drug trade that results in death and human suffering should be appropriated to solve the crisis they helped create.
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We can create the momentum needed to bring this tragic, expensive, and deadly opioid crisis to a halt, but we need everyone's support. Call, text, tweet—do whatever it takes to get the word out. Big Pharma is going to come at us with everything they’ve got—we need to fight back.
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If that’s true, then start w/the banks. Jail these fux who launder money for the drug cartels. They were fined, only fined- no one went to jail and the Fed Reserve took the cash HSBC paid. JAIL THEM!https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSBRE8BA05M20121211?__twitter_impression=true …
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Have you thought about how this could be extrapolated to gun manufacturers? Where will you stand then?
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Yet Bernie Sanders says Gun manufacturers should not be held liable for the misuse of their products, just as any other industry isn’t held accountable for how end-consumers use their products.
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