Well, hello and welcome to the worldwide broadcast of the Ted and Austin Brower show,

bringing you the latest world news and health research.

I hope everybody is having a fantastic day today.

One thing that I wanted to address,

you know, we're getting rolling here, is I saw this article and I saw this bill that got passed on this opiate epidemic issue that we've seen across the country. I want to kind of give

you guys my take on it. I saw a couple of people email me this afternoon on it.

This is an incredibly horrible piece of legislation.

Right across it, when you first look at it, it looks like it's really good, it's really great.

We're going to help fight the opioid epidemic, but it's not that at all. Not only does it gives a $1.5 billion grant to help combat the opioid epidemic across the country.

That sounds great all in all when you first hear about it.

However, when you find out now that $900 million of that grant is going to be used only to support medication-assisted treatment with

methadone and buprenorine, which they're both synthetic opioid derivatives, essentially,

would they help curb opioid cravings, methadone, some horrible stuff.

It causes almost more side effects than oxycontin or morphine does itself.

The other one I'll talk about here in a minute.

Then like $400 million is going to be dispersed to community health centers and organizations

to expand treatment programs.

Another $150 million is going to be focused on improving knowledge of the epidemic.

This whole thing is being used to give more money to Big Pharma.

Almost a billion dollars of this is going directly to basically methadone treatment, which is

a pharmaceutical drug that Big Pharma manufactures.

On top of the aspect of it that I really have an issue with, the act, which is called the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention Act called Stop, also sets its side by requiring U.S. Postal Service to keep electronic records on all incoming foreign shipments,

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