Tom Steyer on Drugs Democratic Presidential Challenger; CEO

72,000 died from opioids last year; that's a health crisis

Steyer: Well, I think this is one of the most heartbreaking experiences that America's had. 72,000 people died of opioid overdoses last year, and that's not only a tragedy for them, it's a tragedy for their family and their communities. And so I think we have to treat this as a health crisis. We have to move the resources and the support there to try and help people. The reason I'm running for president is that we have a broken government, and we have a broken government because corporations have bought it.

Q: What would you do about "broken government"?

Steyer: Every single one of these conversations is about that broken government. It's about drug companies buying the government and getting what they want. We need to break the corporate stranglehold on our government. I've put forward actual structural changes, including term limits, a national referendum, the end to the idea that corporations are people.