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To the story is stay away from it all. it's really out of control. >> miles said the drugs are made in china and come through mexico before reaching the united states. these drugs are so new it was just last month that georgia officially outlieu lawed them. other states are catching up. investment the mission to expand the use of nor cannot is becoming urgent. the opioid problem is getting worse not better. >> the president is long to fight back against the opioid but that has to do with less funding. a leaked memo show the trump administration plan to cut 94% of the budge for white house to h...

This today and steve, i know we've been pointing this out, but it's worth mentioning again, it's been three months of a trump administration. this is the second or perhaps third time they tried to get this to the floor. it's been an ugly process in many ways. now comes the hard part because it goes over the senate. we already have a statement from a stalwart republican rob portman of ohio who just won re-election who said he has serious problems with the medicaid cuts in this thing. remember, it phases out medicaid for those not already on medicaid by 2019. they're going to save billions of do...

Frankly, my feeling is marijuana isn't as dangerous as drinking. i would rather be on the street with someone who is high than someone who is drunk. >> kimberly: i beg to differ. studies showing that young people smoking pot, studies that link it to schizophrenia and the onset of it. >> eric: we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars fighting this. it's not getting any better. when you look at the opioid problem, that's where you can focus. there's a lot of illegal opioids being produced even right here in west virginia, factories, these are the things that are killing people. 50,000 plus ...

>> well, you know, trust many times takes a lifetime to achieve and one day to lose. so, to get the trust back, it's going to take some doing. but what he can do to fight the opioid problem with a stroke of a pen is authorize funding for, let's say, one dose of narcan to go out to every volunteer emergency squad in a population, towns in a population, say, 10,000 people or less. i'm talking about the emergency squads that sell chickens on saturday to buy new fire hoses and emergency equipment because every one of those doses of narcan represents a saved life. had the emergency squad that came ...

And cut back on medicaid, there will be less treatment available for folks who are dealing with addiction. i know how bad the problem is here. a couple of years ago, the governor of the state of vermont gave his state of the state address and you know what he talked about? not economics or health care. he talked about the opioid problem in the state of vermont and in new hampshire. it's a severe problem all over the country. there are a couple of things we ought to do. deana raised this issue. if people have nothing to look forward to in their lives, i suppose getting high is an alternative. >...