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  • Bo Dietl on Solving New York’s Opioid Demand Problem

    By Neil A. Carousso

    Drug overdose deaths, once rare, are now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, surpassing peak annual deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents and HIV infection. It kills 100 people a day.

    Bo Dietl, Independent New York City Mayoral Candidate and retired New York Police Department detective told this reporter one step is to remove so-called sanctuary city status to stem the supply of opioids coming in via illegal immigrant smuggling. An imperative, Dietl said, is to solve the demand for opioids.

    “We got to hit this 3 ways: Enforcement, we got to send these son of a guns to jail for the rest of their lives,” Dietl said of drug dealing. ” “Number 2 is education. Number 3 is treatment.”

    Over the last two decades, as prescriptions for opioids began to soar, rates of addictions and overdose deaths increased in parallel.

    President Donald J. Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency on October 26.

    WATCH:  Bo Dietl Opens Up about NYC Mayoral Race, His Friendship with President Trump and More in Rare Substantive Video Interview

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