{"id":25505,"date":"2025-05-13T20:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trumps-focus-on-punishing-drug-dealers-may-hurt-drug-users-trying-to-quit\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:23:05","slug":"trumps-focus-on-punishing-drug-dealers-may-hurt-drug-users-trying-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trumps-focus-on-punishing-drug-dealers-may-hurt-drug-users-trying-to-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Focus on Punishing Drug Dealers May Hurt Drug Users Trying to Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump has long railed against drug traffickers. He has said they should be given the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/05\/10\/1152847242\/trump-campaign-execute-drug-dealers-smugglers-traffickers-death-row\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">death penalty<\/a> \u201cfor their heinous acts.\u201d On the first day of his second term, he signed an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/designating-cartels-and-other-organizations-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations-and-specially-designated-global-terrorists\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">executive order<\/a> listing cartels as \u201cterrorist organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But many public health and addiction experts fear that his budget proposals and other actions effectively punish people who use drugs and struggle with addiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration has vowed to reduce overdose deaths, one of the country\u2019s deadliest public health crises, by emphasizing <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/07\/pam-bondi-fentanyl-experts-say-attorney-general-claims-false-implausible-misleading\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">law enforcement<\/a>, border patrols and tariffs against China and Mexico to keep out fentanyl and other dangerous drugs. But it is also seeking huge cuts to programs that reduce drug demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The budget it submitted to Congress this month seeks to eliminate more than a billion dollars for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2025\/04\/25\/us\/trump-news#narcan-grants-cuts-kennedy\" title=\"\">national and regional<\/a> treatment and prevention services. The primary federal agency addressing drug use, the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services<\/a> Administration, has so far lost about half its workers to layoffs under the Trump administration and is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.padilla.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/padilla-smith-baldwin-sanders-slam-trump-admin-proposal-to-dissolve-mental-health-agency\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">slated to be collapsed<\/a> into the new Administration for a Healthy America, whose purview will reach far beyond mental illness and drug use.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And if reductions to Medicaid being discussed by Republicans in Congress are realized, millions of Americans will be unable to continue, much less start treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The White House did not respond to requests for comment. The budget itself says that ending drug trafficking \u201cstarts with secure borders and a commitment to law and order\u201d and that it is cutting addiction services deemed duplicative or \u201ctoo small to have a national impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those cuts are agonizing, public health experts say, because they come just as the country is making sustained progress in lowering the number of fentanyl deaths. Many interventions may be contributing to that progress, including greater availability of the overdose reversal spray naloxone; more treatment beds, sober housing and peer counseling; and declines in the strength and quantity of the illicit drug supply, they say. But studies so far have not demonstrated convincingly which of those factors merit greater focus and investment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt would be a tragedy if we defund these programs without fully understanding what\u2019s working and then our overdose rate starts to climb again,\u201d said <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/valleyhealth.org\/news\/valley-health-welcomes-dr-matthew-christiansen-as-vice-president-of-health-affairs-chief-medical-officer\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Matthew Christiansen<\/a>, an addiction medicine physician in Huntington, W.Va., a city once labeled ground zero for the opioid crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1XD_4DRYO5-52H9iR1MOCOSZSgz-3L6Rq\/view\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">letter signed by more than 320<\/a> behavioral medicine academic experts, sent Monday to congressional leaders, decried the cuts, including those to \u201ccommunity-based naloxone distribution, peer outreach programs, drug-use-related infectious disease prevention programs and drug test strip programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president\u2019s budget calls for ending grants for <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/substance-use\/harm-reduction#\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201charm reduction,\u201d<\/a> a strategy to prevent disease transmission and keep drug users alive that has become largely accepted by mainstream addiction treatment providers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The budget derides federal financial support for \u201cdangerous activities billed as \u2018harm reduction,\u2019 which included funding <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/21\/us\/politics\/biden-harm-reduction-crack-pipes.html\" title=\"\">\u2018safe smoking kits and supplies\u2019<\/a> and \u2018syringes\u2019 for drug users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That language is a callback to false reports in 2022 that a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/21\/us\/politics\/biden-harm-reduction-crack-pipes.html\" title=\"\">$30 million federal harm reduction grant<\/a> could be used to purchase pipes for smoking crack and meth. In fact, a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/factcheck\/2022\/02\/11\/fact-check-crack-pipes-arent-included-30-million-grant-program\/6736281001\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">small portion<\/a> of that grant, designated for \u201csafer smoking kits,\u201d was for supplies like <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/02\/10\/biden-smoking-kits-pipes-addiction\/6724719001\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">alcohol swabs and lip balm<\/a>. The grant also supported programs in states that permit sterile syringe exchanges, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/36710474\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">effective<\/a> in reducing hepatitis C and H.I.V. infection rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou can\u2019t just tell people to stop using drugs with a snap of the fingers,\u201d said Dr. Christiansen, a former director of West Virginia\u2019s drug control policy. \u201cThese are tools to reduce the harm of opioids while also helping them be successful long-term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">According to the federal agency\u2019s annual survey of substance use, in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samhsa.gov\/data\/sites\/default\/files\/NSDUH%202023%20Annual%20Release\/2023-nsduh-main-highlights.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2023<\/a>, 27.2 million Americans ages 12 or older had a drug use disorder, 28.9 million had alcohol use disorder, and 7.5 million had both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The budget does leave intact block grants for states to combat addiction and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.padilla.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/padilla-smith-baldwin-sanders-slam-trump-admin-proposal-to-dissolve-mental-health-agency\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">mental illness<\/a>. But without the agency\u2019s additional grants, hands-on training and monitoring, in addition to possible Medicaid reductions, states will not be able to afford the many medical and social services required to prevent and treat addiction, Dr. Christiansen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/arts-sciences.buffalo.edu\/history\/faculty\/faculty-directory\/herzberg-david.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">David Herzberg<\/a>, a professor of drug policy and history at the University at Buffalo, said that Mr. Trump\u2019s almost single-minded linking of the nation\u2019s drug problems with border issues harks back to late 19th-century America, when the government associated <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.uab.edu\/humanrights\/2024\/04\/10\/how-stigma-hurts-series-opium-and-chinese-repression\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">opium dens with Chinese immigrants<\/a>. Fearing the incursion of Chinese workers and inflamed by press reports of Chinese men using opium to lure young white women into prostitution, Congress severely restricted Chinese immigration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then as now, Mr. Herzberg said, political conservatives found that targeting foreign drug suppliers was a muscular means of advancing broader agendas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In contrast with highly publicized <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dea.gov\/press-releases\/2025\/05\/06\/dea-seizes-record-breaking-27-million-fentanyl-pills\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">drug seizures<\/a>, people who chronically use drugs have become afterthoughts, usually visible only as street irritants, their addiction perceived to be the result of their own choices, he said. Elected leaders who advocate for their welfare risk being tarred as soft on crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf politicians are going to stick their necks out for them, I would be shocked,\u201d Mr. Herzberg said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/13\/health\/trump-drugs-treatment.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump has long railed against drug traffickers. 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