California considers paying for heroin addiction treatment by taxing painkillers
“In the end… we get it all” – Ace Rothstein Casino
California Democratic assemblyman Kevin McCarty has introduced a bill that would place a surcharge on all opioid sales in order to pay for various addiction prevention programs and rehab programs (gee wonder who’s running those places that have no influence over the good assemblyman we’re sure).
So, let’s take a minute before we move one step further. Painkillers by and large are opioids. Heroin is an opioid. So the state is looking to take money from people that can afford to buy opioids (or have insurance that we all pay for) so that they can pay to get people off opioids (most likely with other opioids paid for with these programs). Ain’t that something? Fuckin’ genius actually. I should have been a politician.
We probably shouldn’t bring up how 8 out of 10 people that are addicted to heroin started with painkillers in the first place. So with a little luck some people might just not be able to afford their painkillers if the tax is too heavy and might turn to street drugs that the state will gladly pay to get them off of. Huh?
Circle in circles inside a big circle. All inside a box run by only a handful of people that you don’t know and don’t like you. Welcome to the world.
Of course assemblyman McCarthy cited little facts, appeared to not have t looked into what this really is that is being proposed and used the usual talking points of protecting “our sons and daughters”. Everyone is someone’s son or daughter. Means nothing. The fact that heroin addicts usually start with painkillers and you want to tax painkillers to get people off 1 opioid and put them on another does mean something.
Sorry, but to us it just looks like charging people (all of us in most cases) more for a product to clean up the mess that the product made in the first place.
What can you do? What can you do indeed? Vote? Go ahead, locally might make differences. Worked out well on the national level.
Actually if you care, get out there and run for local office and make changes within. Watch yer skull if you do.
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