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'I'll be 50 in a minute': Bodyguard star Keeley Hawes, 46, reveals she is preparing for a life away from acting Simon Cowell's company S圜o 'to face £1m lawsuit' as 'former X Factor contestants make bullying allegations against the show' 'There’s a good chance we know someone who has or who is.'īeatrice and Eugenie 'BEGGED Charles to let shamed Andrew back in from the cold': Future king 'rebutted pleas of princesses and Duke of York 'We all have a role to play, even if we haven’t fought this battle in our own lives,' Obama concluded. We’ll see fewer preventable deaths and fewer broken families.'
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'More people will find the strength to recover, just like Macklemore and million of Americans have. 'When we talk about opioid abuse as the problem it is, more people will seek the help that they need.' 'The good news is there’s hope,' Obama added. It takes a strong community and accessible resources.' 'Addiction isn’t a personal choice or a personal failing, and sometimes it takes more than a strong will to get better. 'Shame and the stigma associated with the disease keeps too many people from seeking the help that they actually need,' Macklemore said. Macklemore credited recovery and the 12 step program with saving his life, and both he and Obama hope to help to make the conversation about addiction a public one. 'The doctors need more training about the power of medication they prescribe, and the risks those pain medications carry,' he said. Obama said he has also asked Congress to expand access to recovery services and 'give first-responders the tools they need to treat overdoses before it's too late'. 'And under Obamacare health plans in the marketplace have to include coverage for treatment.’ We’re working with law enforcement to help people get into treatment instead of jail.' 'My administration is working with communities to reduce overdose deaths, including with medication. 'Just talking about this crisis isn't enough,' the president said. Obama's budget calls for a new $1.1billion investment to expand treatment. 'This doesn’t just happen to other people’s kids or in some other neighbourhood, it can happen to any of us.’ 'It doesn't care what color you are, whether you're a guy or a girl, rich or poor, whether you live in an inner city, suburb, or rural American.' 'Addiction is just like any other disease, it doesn't discriminate,' Macklemore said in his address with Obama. Obama explained that drug overdoses now take more lives in America every year than traffic accidents, with opioid overdoses tripping since 2000 'First dealer was his mom's medicine cabinet.' 'Now he's wrapped in plastic,' another lyric begins. The devastating song talks about Macklemore's experience losing Kevin and their descent into addiction as young men. '21 years old, an angel was lost here / Wings clipped by the group of 80 milligram sniffs of ocycontin', one of the lyric reads.
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The rapper wrote an entire song dedicated to him for his most recent album This Unruly Mess I've Made. This isn't the first time Macklemore has publicly discussed his friend Kevin. 'My friend Kevin overdosed on painkillers when he was just 21 years old.' 'I didn't just know someone, I lost someone,' Macklemore said. The president cited a recent study's finding that 44 percent of Americans know someone who had been addicted to prescription painkillers. 'Addiction doesn't always start in some dark alley. 'A lot of time they're from legal drugs prescribed by a doctor,' he explained. Obama explained that drug overdoses now take more lives in America every year than traffic accidents, with opioid overdoses tripping since 2000. 'And I want to help others facing the same challenges that I did.' 'If I hadn't gotten the help I needed when I needed it, I definitely would not be here today.' 'I abused prescription drugs and I've battled addiction.' 'I'm here with President Obama because I take this personally,' Macklemore said in the beginning of his address. Thursday's sit-down marked the first time a non-administration official has ever joined President Obama for his weekly address from the White House