For Star subscribers: Some candidates, such as Kari Lake, say that putting troops on the border will help address Arizona's addiction crisis. Unlikely.
It means the solutions are simpler and don't take as much work from us.
"The governor is the commander in chief of the Arizona National Guard. We’re going to enact and invoke our Article 1 Section 10 powers in the United States Constitution to secure that border." The other phenomenon is the smuggling of pills containing highly addictive fentanyl — largely through the border's ports of entry. Over the last three years, 87 percent of the seizures of fentanyl by Customs and Border Protection officials have taken place at ports of entry — 25,100 pounds out of 28,800 total.
Cutting that demand — getting people not to take one of these pills in the first place, or to stop consuming them once they're hooked — that's the hard work on ourselves as a society. It's more mundane and complicated than the symbolic deployment of soldiers to fight a drug problem that, at base, can't be shot or arrested.
When we talked Friday, Vega told me the nitty-gritty details of how the system can still fail people who want help. She followed up the conversation with a detailed email including spreadsheets of fee-for-service rates and provider information. Among the ongoing problems Vega has identified:
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