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One in five people with opioid use disorder receive the medications considered the gold standard for opioid treatment.

>> tucker: you have the numbers and they are able to be backed up. why is no one else saying that? >> that is a great question. we don't have perfect data. this is the best data that i think is available. i think the kind of ideological factions that are in the dominant position in california, and oregon and seattle, washington, they don'ttt want to say there is an addition crisis because itha conflicts. and they also want to avoid stigmatizing addiction. than digging into they have chosen to ignore it. garcetti has an outline of the sixha causes of homelessness. not one of them is drug addict...

Thank you for coming on. >> thank you. >> tucker: you say the main cause -- also hiding in plain site and it's drug addiction. >> yeah. that's right. i think we have an addition crisis that is being disguised as a housing crisis and if you look at the numbers some of the estimates are that up to 50% of the homeless are addicted to opioids and 80% of the people that are unsheltered people living in cars and tents and rvs suffer from substance abuse disorders. only 6% of people on the streets say it's because of rising rents while at the same time 80% of people are suffering from addictions and ...