2023 KY Governor's race: on Drugs


Daniel Cameron: Reached settlement with drug companies over opioid crisis

Cameron spearheaded the creation of the Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission, tasked to distribute the Commonwealth's portion of the over $842 million from settlements Cameron reached with drug companies for their role in the deadly opioid crisis. Funds will be split between state and local government to go toward programs supporting addiction intervention, treatment, and recovery.
Source: 2023 Kentucky Gubernatorial website CameronForKentucky.com Mar 29, 2023

Kelly Craft: Not one family hasn't felt pain of someone with addiction

[On addiction]: "Drugs are affecting every part of society, of the backbone of the state," she said, referencing her campaign ad that uses a missing chair to illustrate the damage of drugs. "There's not one family in the state of Kentucky, not one table that I have sat down anywhere in this state, that has not felt the pain of someone with an addiction, of someone with substance use disorder."
Source: The News-Enterprise on 2023 Kentucky Gubernatorial race Feb 18, 2023

Mike Harmon: Focus on increasing faith based treatments for addiction

Dry up the demand. While we need to harshly punish distributors, we need to extend a hand to those that are trapped in addiction. A focus on increasing faith based treatments and providing additional resources for those addicted to drugs will be immediate actions that I take as Governor. My wife is the women's chaplain at the Isaiah House women's ministry and sees the concerns and the successes when it comes to breaking a vicious cycle.
Source: 2023 Kentucky Gubernatorial campaign website MikeHarmon.com Mar 27, 2023

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Candidates and political leaders on Drugs:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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