Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez actually said...

"So, we have it--we're at an inflection point, where we could potentially criminalize this again, or we could potentially treat the opioid crisis as a health issue."

"So, my question is, how do we move from Nixon's first approach of treating this as a disease to the war on drugs that was unleashed just a few years later, in the 1980's, and waging this war on drugs ..."

"This is how America has gone from criminalizing to treating opioids, and then going back again."

"Nixon's first instinct was actually to treat opioids as a disease."