The brief but powerful interaction a high school student had with Sen. Cory Booker showed how young people have been pulled into the debate over how to end the opioid crisis
A high school sophomore told Sen. Cory Booker she wouldn’t be old enough to vote in next year's presidential election, but she said her New Hampshire community needed more funding to fight substance abuse, including for support groups and rehabilitation facilities.
Booker is hardly the first presidential candidate to be grilled over how to stanch the spread of the opioid crisis, which President Donald Trump has declared a public health emergency. The addiction epidemic has been one of the rare points of bipartisan agreement in Congress in recent years, and liberal firebrand Sen. Elizabeth Warren find support in a conservative area of West Virginia last week when she discussed the issue.
“We need more resources, we need funding, we need people to come up here and listen to people,” she began, outlining the need for addiction recovery support groups and better rehab facilities. Booker noted that his hometown of Newark is also a low-income community suffering from the same issues.
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