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Policy White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Awards Law Enforcement Agencies and Officials for Outstanding Drug Interdiction Operations

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White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Awards Law Enforcement Agencies and Officials for Outstanding Drug Interdiction Operations​

ONDCP Press Release
22 Jul 2022

Excerpt:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director Dr. Rahul Gupta recognized law enforcement partners at the United States Interdiction Committee (USIC) Awards for their work to disrupt the trafficking of drugs like fentanyl and strengthen the Nation’s response to the overdose epidemic through multi-jurisdictional collaboration between law enforcement task forces. Today’s awardees from across the United State were selected from more than 100 highly qualified nominees. The work of these agencies and individuals helps advance President Biden’s National Drug Control Strategy to beat the overdose epidemic.

President Biden released the Safer America Plan, a proposal to keep communities safe and save lives. Among other initiatives, it proposes imposing tough penalties for fentanyl trafficking; investing in services like mental health and substance use disorder services to reduce the burdens on police so they can focus on violent crime; ensuring people in criminal justice settings have access to treatment; and ending sentencing disparities on crack cocaine and powder cocaine. Read the full proposal here.

“President Biden’s Strategy to beat the overdose epidemic goes after two key drivers of it: untreated addiction and drug trafficking,” said Dr. Gupta. “The law enforcement leaders in this room today have helped advance that Strategy by interdicting drugs like fentanyl that are claiming a life every five minutes around the clock, and depriving drug traffickers of their profits. On behalf of the Biden-Harris Administration, I am proud to honor their heroic efforts that have saved lives. The work law enforcement officials do every day is critical to keeping our communities healthy and safe.”
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Snafu in the Void said:
... seriously?
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Sometimes it can be quite difficult to wrap your head around the absurdity of the things politicians say about the drug war

Overdoses deaths at all time high ? Sure let’s award the cops who have done essentially nothing to help! Some of them won’t even administer naloxone out of a misguided fear that they too will overdose
 
What next from this administration ?
Remember that Joe Biden was one of the authors of a bill that punished crack cocaine users much much more than than powdered cocaine on the Federal level.
I can only imagine what damage this administration will do before 4 years are over. Buckle up your seat belts folks.
 
And ironically enough, the interdiction efforts may have led to more profits for traffickers in the end due to the hydra effect

By stopping one trafficking organization, a void in the market opens up and you may see multiple new organizations pop up to fill that gap.

Happens all the time with DNMs
 
Cheshire_Kat said:
Remember that Joe Biden was one of the authors of a bill that punished crack cocaine users much much more than than powdered cocaine on the Federal level.
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And let's not forget, he was quite adamant the we all knew for sure that it was him who wrote the bill about crackhouses (which today is preventing safe consumption sites from opening in the US):

www.c-span.org

User Clip: "I'm the guy who authored the crackhouse legislation."

"I'm the guy who authored the crackhouse legislation."
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