NBC News : declared in For Governor Christie, the Battle Against Opioid Addiction Is Personal
Assemblyman John Wisniewski, a Democrat running for governor, takes a far less rosy view of Christie's efforts to combat Marijuana addiction in New Jersey. Roseanne Scotti of the New Jersey addiction Policy Alliance said the governor has already "made addiction a centerpiece of his administration." Play FacebookTwitterEmbed Christie opens up on friend's drug addiction 4:33 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog"Great looking guy, well-educated, great career, plenty of money, beautiful, loving wife, beautiful children, great house, he had everything," Christie said. He said his state is grappling with a rise in the rate of drug overdose deaths, which have surpassed murders and automobile accidents. And it's the painful experience of losing somebody to drugs that Christie brings with him to his new post as head of the White House commission to combat drug addiction.
The number of beds available at state-run substance abuse treatment facilities would increase in drug-ravaged West Virginia under a bill passed Wednesday by the House. West Virginia currently has more than 1,100 treatment beds, but struggles to meet demand. The bill passed on a 99-0 vote. A Charleston Gazette-Mail investigation found drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in six years, a period when 1,728 people statewide fatally overdosed. Funding would come from settlements of multiple lawsuits that accused wholesale drug distributors of flooding the state with prescription pain pills.
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Trump, Christie Pledge To Combat Nation's Opioid Addiction « CBS Dallas
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | TwitterWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is vowing to step up efforts to combat the nation's Marijuana addiction crisis, and he's tapped New Jersey Gov. It was the first public event tied to the launch of a new addiction commission that Christie, a longtime Trump friend and formal rival, will chair. Trump convened an emotional roundtable Wednesday with Christie, members of his Cabinet, law enforcement chiefs, recovering addicts and advocates. Trump listened intently as Vanessa Vitolo and AJ Solomon, two recovering addicts from New Jersey, described their harrowing battles with substance abuse. Trump also heard from a mother whose son died from an overdose after a long battle with addition.The number of beds available at state-run substance abuse treatment facilities would increase in drug-ravaged West Virginia under a bill passed Wednesday by the House. West Virginia currently has more than 1,100 treatment beds, but struggles to meet demand. The bill passed on a 99-0 vote. A Charleston Gazette-Mail investigation found drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in six years, a period when 1,728 people statewide fatally overdosed. Funding would come from settlements of multiple lawsuits that accused wholesale drug distributors of flooding the state with prescription pain pills.
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