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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

What is the appropriate role for the Federal Government?

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

You know what else worked? Convincing legislators--State legislators--to pass laws that mandated seat belt usage.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

When George Voinovich and I were Governors together, I was asked to be the founding Vice Chairman of something called the 'American Legacy Foundation.'

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

I am going to come back to 'find out what works, do more of that.'

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

the anti-marijuana fanatical message we had is not truthful.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

It is one thing for us to pass authorizing legislation that would authorize programs to address this situation--opioids and opioid addiction.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

I come at this as a recovering Governor, who focused a fair amount on trying to make sure that kids were born to parents who were ready to raise them.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

If you continue to use cyber theft to steal our intellectual property, you know what we did to Iran with economic sanctions?

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

The President has put forward a very strong and meaningful strategy, which does encompass prevention, treatment, and recovery as well as data and public education initiatives around these issues.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

One of the things we tried to do, I think, in Afghanistan, was to convince the farmers there--and help the farmers there to learn how to plant stuff other than poppies and to make money doing that.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

We need to reduce the size of the 'haystack.'

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

If you just give someone one of these pharmaceuticals, which are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and proven to be effective by research, the medication, alone, will not allow the person to actually transform their lives.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

I am convinced that we could save a lot of money here--and treatment is expensive--so are some of the other things we talked about here--that comprehensive advertising campaign would be expensive, but, as I always like to say, 'compared to…

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

We have done that with tobacco quite successfully through the American Legacy Foundation's--which is now called the Truth Initiative's--'truth' campaign.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· Apr 12, 2016

The root cause is our addiction--our addictions to opioids and heroin--that sort of thing. And, we cannot ignore that.

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