rather than getting them mental health and addiction help. juan: it s offensive. jesse: we showed video of rats scurrying all over the place. juan: you can show video of rats scurrying outside the studio. jesse: i haven t seen any rats. dana: here is something the federal government could do. people are illegally dumping trash in those areas. the federal government, u.s. attorney s office could possibly work with local officials and prosecute those offenders and make it really count. a federal offense rather than a state offense. tom: rat can hold the slice of pizza. we have seen that. jesse: pizza rat. katie: a massive note america s war on opioids, details on that when we return. memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere.
additional problems. i also think the federal government s crackdown on the black market and the illegal mixing of drugs is so critical beyond this settlement. juan: it s an interesting conversation, katie. there are people who need pain medication but the same time we are talking public policy. without a doubt we ve had an opioid epidemic. how do you balance it and are we at the point where we should be concerned about individuals who say i need the medication, versus a large number of people who we know have become addicted, if not dying from the abuse of opioids. katie: a woman s stepson s father committed suicide because he was not able to get proper opioid treatment for severe pai pain. there is a serious consequence to overdoing it on one side. the front and back, they are assigning and prescribing these opioids and not thinking about what the consequences might be
and telling people they need them and over prescribing them. have these efforts to throw things away, didn t use them, keep them out of the hands of kids. the pharmacy companies are just the surface. you ll have to look at the insurance companies as well because when you go into get an mri and this has happened to someone i know, you get in mri. if you are too young where they don t want to do it, they will say we know you re in a lot of pain. you have to wait six months were going to give you opioids and if you re still having a problem, will grant you the mri even though you have health insurance or we could pay out-of-pocket. the insurance companies aren t paying for things that would maybe fix the problem through some other means. then the doctors are assigning opioids to people who will take them and become addicted. juan: jesse, where d you come out on this? jesse: these brilliant manufacturers have these amazing scientists and they poured hundreds of millions of dollars
way, washington is like leaving them high and dry and hollowed out and trump is unique. he s going to these decaying parts of the country and he is saying we are going to revitalize this part of america and here s how we are going to do it. not chasing the wind and the other direction. i wish democrats would recognize this and say we can work with this president on certain issue issues. homelessness, opioids, infrastructure. the nafta deal that is sitting on nancy s desk decaying. if they could wise up and think about how we could make america great again and get the politics out of it, we could get a lot of things done. juan: wow. the problem is republicans opinion weaponizing this issue to go after democrats. big cities having problems with the homeless. in the course of it, then demonizing people who are addicts or traumatized veterans are people who are mentally ill. jesse: i disagree with that