Hillary Clinton’s Plan Against Drug and Alcohol Addiction

Clinton has said that she first learned about the seriousness and depth of the substance abuse problem in New Hampshire and nationally by speaking with Granite Staters in Keene early in her campaign.

She vowed to spend $7.5 billion over 10 years to strengthen efforts of states and local communities battling the problem.

An African American woman from Dubuque, Iowa, shared her story on Clinton’s Instagram page: “My older sister has been battling with drugs and alcohol use for more than 20 years…She didn’t get to raise any of her children”.

Babbitt killed a man during an alcohol- and drug-fueled fight.

The plan, announced in an op-ed in the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader newspaper, grew out of months of discussion of national drug addiction at Clinton campaign events in New Hampshire, Iowa and elsewhere. She would also call for a federal reevaluation of payment, insurance and reimbursement practices for care and direct the U.S. Attorney General to issue guidance to state counterparts on putting rehabilitation ahead of jail time for low-level drug offenders. It will also train first responders on how to administer Naloxone, a drug that reverses heroin overdoses. “The South Carolina Department of Mental Health has seen the largest budget cuts in the nation, which is why we must make serious investments to build out treatment infrastructure to combat this epidemic”. The difference between them is that while Sanders has policies rooted in support of the average, working-class American, Trump represents the interests of corporations and the extremely wealthy.

In an exchange from February 6, 2010, Clinton asks aide Huma Abedin for talking points for a call she’s about to have with the newly appointed foreign minister of Ecuador.

Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie also cast a spotlight on the state’s crisis on Wednesday in a television ad, in which the New Jersey governor extended his pro-life views to the need to take drug abuse head-on.

“To be candid, I didn’t expect what came next”, Clinton wrote in the piece posted late on Tuesday. Eighty percent of Democrats who plan to vote for former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee in the Democratic primary have an unfavorable opinion of Clinton while only 10 percent view her positively.

The FBI is investigating the security of the private server and any classified information on it. Clinton says she did nothing wrong and only used the private account out of convenience.

Spokesmen for her campaign didn’t immediately comment as to where that funding would come from. “Both sides of the aisle in Congress are very interested in this because its killing people back home”, said Nick Motu, vice president at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s Institute for Recovery Advocacy.

Concerns about Clinton’s falling popularity have fed uncertainty among Democrats about her electability, as well as speculation that Vice President Biden will challenge her for the Democratic nod.