So, how is the Drumpf Administration's war on opioids going?
We're wondering because we just read the most amazing, gone-viral obituary of a young woman in Burlington, Vermont — who died at age 30 from the deadly drugs that Purdue Pharma and the evil Sackler family misbranded and sold like hotcakes.
And Burlington police chief Brandon del Pozo is mad.
"Why did it take a grieving relative with a good literary sense to get people to pay attention for a moment and shed a tear when nearly a quarter of a million people have already died in the same way as Maddie as this epidemic grew?" he asked. And he proceeded to point out all the things that the state of Vermont is doing, like testing for fentanyl, distributing Naxolone to EMTs, training physicians, and refusing to arrest for misdemeanor drug possession.
But don't expect Benedict Donald's crew of knaves, thieves and mobsters to push for anything like that at the federal level. They announced a "program" to combat what they casually called "a national health emergency," but earmarked no funding for it. They put the embarrassing cipher Kellyanne Conway "in charge" of it. They've threatened the death penalty for "drug dealers" — when the "dealers" in question are the Sacklers, their company and the doctors they hoodwinked, pressured and bribed into prescribing. What a bunch of crap.
So we cats are mad, too. We leave you with some closing comments from the young Vermonter's obit.
"We take comfort in knowing that Maddie is surrounded by light, free from the struggle that haunted her. We would have given anything for her to experience that freedom in this lifetime. Our grief over losing her is infinite. And now so is she."
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