"We really need a full socialized medicine system in the United States like every other modern industrialized country has.  And we need full mental health parity.  

You have a lot of people who are taking fentanyl and other drugs for really one of two reasons; they are either depressed, they are unemployed or underemployed that’s why you see this epidemic of drug addiction in parts of the country that have particularly low employment.  And they are also self-medicating themselves.  

So Scott’s solution does sort of touch upon that.  For example, Kurt Cobain suffered from stomach pain, that’s how he got addicted to heroin.  He started taking it because it was cheaper than prescription medication.  

A lot of people who get addicted to fentanyl and opioids

are basically resorting to street drugs because they can’t get prescription pain medication to deal with back pain and other problems, which in the United States is a major, major problem because we have an obesity issue. And when you are obese, you often have back and foot and muscle pains that you would not have otherwise.  

So the point, what we really need here is a real robust medical system that prioritizes getting into seeing the doctor pre-emptively."