Last month, the White House released an estimate that stated Connecticut would be eligible for $9 million over two years in emergency funding under Obama’s budget proposal of $1.1 billion to “expand access to treatment for opioid use disorders.” “This legislation is barely a symbolic step,” Blumenthal said. [...] we commit resources, our words will be a glass half empty. Yet local health advocates say that the filled part of that glass adds momentum to a growing shift to treat heroin addiction as a disease as opposed to just a moral and legal failing. With increased authority to divert drug users from the criminal justice system, cities such as Bridgeport might shift their approach to enforcing drug laws. “While the president will sign this bill once it reaches his desk because some action is better than none, he won’t stop fighting to secure the resources this public health crisis demands,” said White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest.
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