OPINION: Georgia lawmaker says opioid crisis demands federal as well as state attention — and money
Desperate times, as the saying goes, call for desperate measures. And given the political climate in the country right now, it's hard to think of many more desperate, or at least unlikely, political measures than a
"Right now," she told WABE, "if you're a young man and you are 18 to 35 years old and you've already run your family off, you have no money, you have no job and you're addicted, there's absolutely no place to go for addiction services."
That federal money could and does provide such services, according to Gov.
During the summer, when
Unterman is hardly a disinterested party -- political convictions aside -- on the issue of Medicaid cutting or expansion. She serves as chair of the
Given the severity of the problem and the frightening instability of health care politics nationwide right now, it's hard to say where and how public interest, private interest and possible conflict of interest might converge here. But Unterman is not the only
In any event, the senator told WABE that countering the prescription pain drug abuse scourge will be near or at the top of her and her committee's agenda in the 2018 session of the
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