{"id":1981231,"date":"2023-07-24T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-democrat-who-fought-penalties-for-fentanyl-wants-5-billion-for-overdoses\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:52:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:52:24","slug":"california-democrat-who-fought-penalties-for-fentanyl-wants-5-billion-for-overdoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-democrat-who-fought-penalties-for-fentanyl-wants-5-billion-for-overdoses\/","title":{"rendered":"California Democrat seeks $5B to combat fentanyl overdoses, despite previous opposition to penalties."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-democrat-who-fought-penalties-for-fentanyl-wants-5-billion-for-overdoses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1981231&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A California Democrat Demands Billions \u2062to \u200bCombat Fentanyl Overdoses<\/h2>\n<p>A California \u200dDemocrat, Assembly Public Safety Committee\u200b Chairman \u200cReggie Jones-Sawyer, \u2064is taking a\u2062 bold \u200dstance in the fight against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/friday-october-8th-2021\/\" title=\"Friday | October 8th, 2021\">fentanyl overdoses<\/a>. Instead of supporting a Republican effort for stronger penalties,\u2064 Jones-Sawyer is demanding at least $5.2 billion to \u2062fund a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-biden-to-roll-back-president-trumps-crackdown-of-china\/\" title=\"Reports: Biden to roll back President Trump\u2019s crackdown of China\">comprehensive approach<\/a> \u2063to tackle this\u2063 crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed legislation, Assembly Bill 1510, aims to allocate the funds strategically. It \u200cincludes \u2062approximately $2 billion\u2062 for \u200dsubstance \u200cabuse treatment, \u2062$400 million for\u200b harm reduction, and $200 million\u2064 for overdose mitigation efforts. Additionally, $2 billion would\u2062 be dedicated\u2062 to expanding treatment and education programs for California&#8217;s youth, while $500 million would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-democrat-who-fought-penalties-for-fentanyl-wants-5-billion-for-overdoses\/\" title=\"California Democrat seeks B to combat fentanyl overdoses, despite previous opposition to penalties.\">target\u2064 high-level drug traffickers<\/a> and provide housing for offenders. Furthermore, $100 million would be\u2063 allocated for research on emerging drugs like xylazine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re\u2064 not just \u200dpoking at the \u200dproblem,&#8221; Jones-Sawyer emphasized. &#8220;I want to go ahead \u2062and \u2062knock it out once and for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 urgency for action is evident, as the report highlights that 83% of the 7,100 opioid overdose deaths in California were attributed to fentanyl. However, Jones-Sawyer faced criticism for his request \u2062for over $5 billion, given his previous opposition to\u200b expanding the\u2063 severity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-relocates-employees-from-seattle-office-amid-crime-spike-fentanyl-crisis\/\" title=\"Amazon Relocates Employees From Seattle Office Amid Crime Spike, Fentanyl Crisis\">fentanyl-related crimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the\u2064 criticism, Jones-Sawyer\u200b acknowledges his past shortcomings and emphasizes the need for a comprehensive approach. \u200b&#8221;I \u2063think I did a horrible job at translating and getting not only my Republican colleagues to understand, but some of my moderate colleagues \u2062to understand that there has \u200dto be a comprehensive \u2063war \u2064on \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/susan-collins-blasts-open-borders-biden-admin-for-fentanyl-crisis\/\" title=\"Susan Collins Blasts Open Borders Biden Admin For Fentanyl Crisis\">fighting fentanyl<\/a>,&#8221; he admitted.\u200c &#8220;And we have to unite \u200cboth programs, both ideologies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">The\u200d Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Democrat Reggie Jones-Sawyer, who opposed Republican efforts for stricter fentanyl penalties, is now urging for a $5.2 billion fund to combat overdoses. As the Assembly Public Safety Committee Chairman, he advocates for a comprehensive approach rather than tackling the issue bill by bill, as reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1981232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1981232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}