Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren released an opioid crisis plan that would provide $100 billion in treatment, provider support and research funds over 10 years
The Massachusetts senator's announcement comes ahead of her trip to West Virginia on Friday to highlight the epidemic and as the opioid crisis has become an urgent focus on Capitol Hill and in the 2020 presidential campaign.Warren is slated to begin a two-day trip through West Virginia and Ohio with a stop in Kermit, West Virginia, on Friday morning.
"For example, in 2017 the number of opioid-related deaths was 692 in Baltimore, almost as high as West Virginia, 833 -- the state with the highest death rate in the country -- with most deaths occurring in the black community."The plan would provide $4 billion to states, territories and tribal governments in general funding to combat the crisis. An additional $2.7 billion would go to what Warren deems the"hardest hit" cities and counties, of which $1.
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