Opioid Crisis andthe Judge behind it

the unprecedented effort to stem  OPIOID CRISIS - and the judge behind it!!!! The heart if the largest opioid litigation in the Unite States maintains?  With a complex problem like the opioid epidemic, Judge Daniel Polster sys, the danger is that waiting to come up with a perfect solution can become an excuse to do nothing. Here is a good question to think about! Should courts be "a problem solving institution? More people died from drug overdoses in Ohio in 2016 alone than were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. IN 2015, The opioid-driven trajectory continued, with Ohio seeing a nearly 40 percent  increase  in overdoses. Now a federal judge in Cleveland sees an opportunity to do something about it, and he is seizing it with gusto. " ordinary people can do extraordinary things if they step up," says Judge Daniel A. Polster in an interview in his 18th-floor Federal Court House office overlooking Cleveland. "it's not a failure if you don...

T he 700 Club To the 700 Club you talk about, you talk about poverty, and helping other countries. Have you ever looked in your own, and looked in our own country to find the poorest state or even counties here inside the United States. ow dear you as so called helpers of Jesus ignore the problems of poverty right in front of your face. Poverty is not a new experience in Indian country and it has not been particularly exacerbated by natural disaster, the trouble global economy, or other fasters impacting poverty in the U.S. as a whole. Poverty continues to be an issue on reservations is the result of a history of colonization and federal politics. Poverty continues to be an issue on the reservations because of isolation, poor health, poor infrastructure and a lack of opportunities. Nonprofits in the U.S. bear an enormous responsibility, filling the humanitarian needs and gaps left by government -- funded social programs and corporation that do not view these needs as profitable e...