President Donald Trump speaks at a meeting with administration officials on the opioid addiction crisis at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Aug. 8, 2017. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images
Idle hands are the devil’s playground, and opioids are wreaking havoc on the unemployed underclass of the United States.
The good news is that a viable solution is at hand, and it doesn’t require throwing more taxpayer money and law enforcement at the problem.
Fergus Hodgson
Author
Fergus Hodgson is the director of “Econ Americas,” a financial consultancy, and publisher of the “Impunity Observer,” a geopolitical intelligence service. He is the author of “Financial Sovereignty for Canadians: Untether Yourself from the Ottawa Leviathan” (2024).
