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Posted by: thepinetree on 03/22/2023 09:43 AM Updated by: thepinetree on 03/22/2023 09:43 AM
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Governor Newsom Releases Master Plan for Tackling the Fentanyl and Opioid Crisis

San Diego, CA...Following a visit to the San Ysidro Port of Entry, Governor Gavin Newsom released his administration’s Master Plan for Tackling the Fentanyl and Opioid Crisis.  Recognizing the opioid and fentanyl crisis as a multifaceted public health and public safety issue, Governor Newsom’s Master Plan provides a comprehensive approach to save lives. The Master Plan builds on the Governor’s $1 billion investment to tackle this crisis — including an expansion of California National Guard-supported operations that last year led to a 594% increase in seized fentanyl. The Master Plan outlines aggressive steps to support overdose prevention efforts, hold the opioid pharmaceutical industry accountable, crack down on drug trafficking, and raise awareness about the dangers of opioids, including fentanyl.






WHAT GOVERNOR NEWSOM SAID: “Over 150 people die every day in our nation from overdoses and poisonings related to synthetic opioids like fentanyl. Enough. With this Master Plan, California is doubling down to combat this crisis and save lives. Our comprehensive approach will expand enforcement efforts to crack down on transnational criminal organizations trafficking this poison into our communities — while prioritizing harm reduction strategies to reduce overdoses and compassionately help those struggling with substance use and addiction.”








Governor Newsom at San Ysidro Port of Entry







Governor Newsom joins members of the California National Guard to highlight the Master Plan






WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Governor Newsom has invested over $1 billion to crack down on opioid trafficking and enforce the law, combat overdoses, support those with opioid use disorder, and raise awareness about the dangers of opioids. The Master Plan provides a comprehensive framework to deepen the impact of these investments — including through a new CalRx effort where California will seek to manufacture its own opioid overdose reversal drug Naloxone. California will further save lives through an additional $96 million in funding in the Governor’s 2023-24 proposed budget:
  • $79 million for the Naloxone Distribution Project to meet increased demand and provide more Naloxone to communities than ever before;
  • $10 million for grants for education, testing, recovery, and support services;
  • $4 million to make fentanyl test strips more widely available; and
  • $3.5 million in Prop 98 funding to provide overdose medication to all middle and high schools.
These new investments, coupled with the extensive abatement, enforcement, and treatment efforts outlined in the Master Plan will save lives and make California safer.

HOW WE GOT HERE: The U.S. has faced an evolving crisis of opioid addiction, overdose, and death for over two decades, driven by Big Pharma’s irresponsible marketing of prescription opioids – bringing us to today’s fentanyl crisis. Millions of Americans suffer from opioid use disorder and more than 71,000 Americans died in 2022 alone from fentanyl-linked overdoses and drug poisonings. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, a vast majority of fentanyl in the U.S. comes via ports of entry at the border –  through trafficking by organized crime rings, not by migrants.

Under Governor Newsom’s leadership, and through the state’s efforts to hold Big Pharma accountable, California has worked aggressively to tackle the opioid crisis. In the current fiscal year alone, the California Health and Human Services agency is investing $450 million in treatment, abatement, and prevention efforts. The 2022 Budget Act Governor Newsom signed into law included $30 million to expand the California Military Department’s existing drug interdiction efforts to thwart drug-trafficking transnational criminal organizations throughout the state, with a particular focus on assisting federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies in combatting fentanyl. To support the Governor’s initiative to reduce deadly fentanyl in communities, the California National Guard has hired, trained, and embedded 144 new members.

View the Master Plan here.

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Posted on: 2023-03-22 10:09:29   By: Anonymous
 
Grandstanding Again!!!!

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    Posted on: 2023-03-22 11:13:12   By: Anonymous
     

    🖕🏿Fuk Newsom🖕🏿Newsom can kiss my FAT BLACK ASS 🖕🏿🖕🏿

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      Re: Imposter
      Posted on: 2023-03-22 13:26:25   By: Anonymous
       
      Ain't no Blacks in Calabama.

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        Re: Imposter
        Posted on: 2023-03-22 13:27:47   By: Anonymous
         

        Oh I am not black because I didn’t vote for a dementia patient? 🖕🏿Fuk You racist a$$hole 🖕🏿

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          Re: Imposter
          Posted on: 2023-03-22 14:18:44   By: Anonymous
           
          ^Goe eata whole bunch of fentanyl.

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            Re: Imposter
            Posted on: 2023-03-22 18:42:43   By: Anonymous
             

            ^ Go fuk yourself with a cactus 🌵 Libtard!

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              Re: Imposter
              Posted on: 2023-03-22 19:56:59   By: Anonymous
               
              Uckfay ooohyay Gumby!

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          Re: Imposter...I'm not Black
          Posted on: 2023-03-22 17:30:35   By: Anonymous
           
          Who said anything about voting for Biden?


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    Posted on: 2023-03-22 22:28:42   By: Anonymous
     
    Because he’s doing something? You’re one of those damned if he does/damned if he doesn’t kind of people, aren’t you?

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      You may now bow to your self imposed King of California.
      Posted on: 2023-03-23 09:56:27   By: Anonymous
       
      "Because he’s doing something? You’re one of those damned if he does/damned if he doesn’t kind of people, aren’t you?"

      "Doing something" that is completely worthless and illogical, proven so in past history you refuse to recollect.

      The lunatic with the deranged grandeur of movie star syndrome, is making a career of excessively using self absorbed, narcissistic theatrical video performances of himself. For all the lowly general population of the state he deems his peons, to view upon him. What is the total cost for he, his film crew, security and servant entourage, to wine, dine, and lodge all while video grandstanding throughout the state?

      This insanely, self absorbed man has single-handedly overridden the whole of California's population vote for the death penal­ty. And that, in itself
      started this immense collapse into anarchy of the once great state of California that is everywhere, surrounding all of us today.

      Bow to your self imposed King of California.

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No Subject
Posted on: 2023-03-22 18:39:57   By: Anonymous
 
Here's an idea......how about stop the Chinese from flooding it through our southern border!!!!!!!

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    Posted on: 2023-03-22 19:57:37   By: Anonymous
     
    Whats with all the midgets in the Natl Guard?

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      Posted on: 2023-03-23 10:03:42   By: Anonymous
       
      Americans are not enlisting. Illegals can gain citizenship if they serve in the military. Look it up, it's true! They can also buy a business, run it for 3 years and gain citizenship. After they pass it off to all relatives to get citizenship, they just sell it to another illegal.

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      Posted on: 2023-03-24 08:22:14   By: Anonymous
       
      California Guard troops look like they were the drug smugglers a few years ago.

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No Subject
Posted on: 2023-03-22 22:30:21   By: Anonymous
 
Interesting placement of the Little Trees dispensary ad right above the Newsom opioid story.

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    Posted on: 2023-03-23 10:05:02   By: Anonymous
     
    Drugs are the downfall.

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No Subject
Posted on: 2023-03-23 13:21:53   By: Anonymous
 
Interesting how politicians only do what the voting public asks for the last two years of their term? Why is he doing this now?

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