Schumer's $100 Million Cure For The Heroin 'Epidemic' Is Snake Oil
Last week Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) asked for “an emergency $100 million surge” in federal funding to “to quickly combat the fact that New York City has become the hotbed for the East Coast heroin trade.” Schumer declared that “heroin trafficking and usage are at epidemic levels,” adding that “seizures of heroin in New York City in 2014 have already surpassed those of any previous year since 1991, which demonstrates an alarming trend that we must nip in the bud.”
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