The opioid story 60 Minutes won’t tell you is coming from the Mexican drug cartels - NetRight Daily

The opioid story 60 Minutes won’t tell you is coming from the Mexican drug cartels - NetRight Daily

By Printus LeBlanc

Once again, the Washington Post and the CBS “news” program 60 Minutes proved journalism is dead. 60 Minutes ran a very misleading program that attempted to pin the opioid epidemic on two members of the House of Representatives.

The truth is, this epidemic is a total government failure, just not the one 60 Minutes focused on to do with Drug Enforcement Agency distributor license suspensions, which now require Attorney General approval under a new law passed by Congress. The real problem is that multiple presidents, leaders in Congress and thousands of council members have failed in their most basic duty to protect the American people from heroin that has been coming across the southern border from Mexico.

The issue raised by the report is a worthy issue. The U.S. is currently in the midst of an opioid crisis that threatens to kill more Americans per year than many U.S. wars.

The story 60 Minutes told made it seem like the opioid epidemic somehow stemmed from a law passed in 2016, H.R. 471 Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2015. A bill introduced by Rep. Tom Marino (R-Pa.) and cosponsored by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and five other Members. This is, of course, impossible because the law was not passed until mid-2016. The CDC has not even released data related to opioid deaths for 2016, but there the mainstream media is, blaming this law with no data to back it up.

For the drugs coming from Mexico, there is plenty of blame to go around, but you have to wonder why these two members were singled out on an innocuous bill narrowing governing a process on license suspensions that passed both the House and the Senate unanimously, and was signed into law by former President Barack Obama.

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...Even former President Bill Clinton can identify the problem 60 Minutes ignores, telling the U.S. Mayors Conference in Miami. “Because as the government got better at dealing with opioids, more people moved into heroin. Heroin is even cheaper now because it is now being grown in Mexico in the hidden parts of the Sierra Madre Mountains and being harvested by preteens..."