Trump said during the campaign that he wanted to make ads against fentanyl so that people would stop using it. He seemed to think people don’t understand that it’s bad for you.
Here’s the first one which, of course, mentions Trump:
Once again, he believes he’s invented the wheel:
I suspect it will work as well as those did. And, by the way, the “this is your brain on drugs” ad is much more creative than that cheap “Walking Dead” ad they came up with.
The Trump administration has delayed and may cancel roughly $140 million in grants to fund fentanyl overdose response efforts, according to four staff members with close knowledge of the process at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The staffers shared detailed information with NPR about the funding disruption and potential cuts on the condition of anonymity, saying they don’t have permission to speak publicly about their concerns and feared retribution from the Trump administration if identified.
“These are lives at stake,” said one CDC staffer, who has a role administering the addiction grant program, known as the Overdose Data To Action program, often referred to as OD2A. “The announcement [of delays] alone could trigger layoffs and program shutdowns. It could really start a chain reaction that’s hard to come back from,” the CDC staffer said.
State and local public health departments fighting to lower overdose deaths from fentanyl, methamphetamines and other drugs across the U.S. describe the funds as crucial to their efforts.
The last time a major national interruption of addiction care occurred, during the COVID-19 pandemic, drug deaths soared.
Don’t worry, the minute people see that fabulous ad they’ll realize that fentanyl is bad and they’ll stop using it. Easy peasy.