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🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, hello and welcome to the worldwide broadcast of the Ted and Austin Brower Show, |
0:30.4 | bringing you the latest world news and health research. |
0:35.1 | I hope everybody is having a fantastic day to day. |
0:38.7 | One thing that I wanted to address, |
0:40.9 | we're getting rolling here, |
0:43.1 | is I saw this article and I saw this bill that got passed |
0:46.2 | on this opiate epidemic issue that we've seen across the country. |
0:51.1 | I want to kind of give you guys my take on it. |
0:53.2 | I saw a couple of people email me this afternoon on it. |
0:56.2 | This is an incredibly horrible piece of legislation. |
1:00.9 | Right across it, when you first look at it, it looks like it's really good, it's really |
1:05.2 | great. |
1:05.8 | We're going to help fight the opioid epidemic, but it's not that at all. |
1:10.0 | Not only does it, it gives a $1.5 billion grant to help combat the opioid epidemic across the country. |
1:18.8 | That sounds great all in all when you first hear about it. |
1:21.9 | However, when you find out now that $900 million of that grant is going to be used only to support medication-assisted |
1:30.9 | treatment with methadone and buprenorine, which they're both synthetic opioid derivatives, |
1:39.5 | essentially, would they help curb opioid cravings, methadone, some horrible stuff. |
1:43.9 | It causes almost more side effects than oxycontinor morphine does itself. |
1:48.9 | The other one I'll talk about here in a minute, then like 400 million is going to be dispersed |
1:53.4 | to community health centers and organizations to expand treatment programs. |
1:58.1 | Another 150 million is going to be focused on improving knowledge of the epidemic. |
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