Trump to clamp down on opioid dealers – including seeking the death penalty

Some details of the plan are to be unveiled during Trump’s scheduled visit Monday to New Hampshire, which has been hit hard by the opioid crisis.

Beyond the death penalty, Trump’s proposal also includes slashing opioid prescriptions by one-third over the next three years and calling on Congress to pass legislation that would strengthen sentencing laws for drug traffickers.

Last summer, Trump declared that the opioid addiction crisis facing the United States is a “national emergency”, after advisers warned that more Americans die from drug overdoses than gun homicides and auto crashes combined.

President Trump has previously suggested that some drug dealers should face the death penalty.

The plan seeks to cut the number of opioid prescriptions filled by a third within three years, a restriction that will face opposition from critics who argue it could have unintended consequences for people with chronic and even acute pain, and that it instead could force some users to seek more risky drugs, like heroin and synthetic fentanyl.

In addition to death penalties for drug dealers, Trump said he wants “great commercials” aired during “the right shows” to show children “how bad” drugs are.

Newton resident Doug Griffin, whose daughter died from a heroin overdose in 2014, said that he generally approved of the president’s plan, but was wary of the drug penalty portion.

Pollack urged Trump to work with Republican state governors to expand the Medicaid federal health programme so that drug addicts could get more access to health care and counselling.

John Blume, a professor and director of Cornell Law School’s death penalty program, said the Federal Drug Kingpin Act has yielded few “kingpins” or major dealers, mostly ensnaring mid- to low-level minorities involved in the drug trade.

One element of the plan includes applying the federal death penalty to drug traffickers where applicable under current law.

Ruth Marcus at the Washington Post on Sunday reported that President Trump, in the early months of his administration, asked White House staff members to sign nondisclosure agreements vowing not to reveal confidential information. That characterization emerged in news reports about a conversation the president had with Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto last August, in which Trump complained vociferously about illicit drugs flooding across the United States’ southern border. “So you can kill thousands of people and go to jail for 30 days”, Trump said. “Some countries have a very, very tough penalty”. At the same time, Trump spoke of court cases against alleged drug dealers taking clogging up the judicial system. “We will do whatever have to but we are going to win”.

“This scourge of drug addiction in America will stop”, said Trump.

Despite Trump’s claims, there’s no data backing up the claim that immigrants commit more drug-related crimes than US citizens.

Protesters wait Monday for the President Donald Trump’s motorcade near Manchester Community College.

“There was lots of leaking, things that just weren’t true, and a lot of things that were true and should have remained confidential”, the source said of the beginning of Trump’s presidency in 2017.

Past year the president famously referred to the state as a “drug-infested den”.

Though he did not give specifics, Trump said he was inspired by a foreign leader whom he claims has a zero-tolerance policy for drug dealing and who has eliminated their drug problem altogether.

Monday marked the first time Trump and the first lady have traveled to New Hampshire since attending a rally at the SNHU Arena on November 7, 2016, the night before the general election.