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Drug Source Elephant in the Room Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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FILE - In this Friday, July 29, 2016, file photo, Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden describes the motion that witnesses described Jack Yantis made with his rifle toward two Adam County Sheriff's deputies. The conclusion of the office's investigation into Yantis' death were released in Boise, Idaho. The presidential election, racial tensions and police shootings all made the biggest headlines throughout Idaho in 2016. Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter and U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador both campaigned for Donald Trump, and by the end of the year rumors were flying that both men were in the running to be in Trump's administration. (Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2016, file photo, from left, Nevada Assemblyman John Moore, Idaho Rep. Heather Scott and Idaho Rep. Judy Boyle speak to reporters outside the Malheur Wildlife Refuge during the standoff near Burns, Ore. The presidential election, racial tensions and police shootings all made the biggest headlines throughout Idaho in 2016. Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter and U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador both campaigned for Donald Trump, and by the end of the year rumors were flying that both men were in the running to be in Trump's administration. (AP Photo/Rebecca Boone, File)
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FILE - In this May 26, 2016, file photo, the only school building sits empty as the last day of school was unexpectedly cancelled in Dietrich, Idaho. The cancellation was announced amid the small community struggle with the national attention brought by reports that a disabled black football player was raped by his white high school teammates. The presidential election, racial tensions and police shootings all made the biggest headlines throughout Idaho in 2016. Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter and U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador both campaigned for Donald Trump, and by the end of the year rumors were flying that both men were in the running to be in Trump's administration. (AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi, File)
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FILE - In this photo taken Thursday, May 26, 2016, a sign welcomes residents and visitors to the tiny town in Dietrich, Idaho. The small community is struggling with the national attention brought by reports that a disabled black football player was raped by his white high school teammates. The allegations of racist taunts and physical abuse suffered by the teen were revealed this month when the family filed a $10 million lawsuit against the Dietrich School District. (AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi, File)
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FILE - This April 11, 2016 photo shows a portion of the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy campus in Exeter, N.H. Two former teachers at the academy acknowledged sexual misconduct, and a former admissions officer pleaded not guilty to sexual abuse. It was one of the state's top stories in 2016. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
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People protest against the Fort Worth Police Department at the Tarrant County Courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. A white Texas police officer was placed on restricted duty Thursday while an internal investigation looks into a video showing the officer wrestling a black woman to the ground before arresting her and her two teenage daughters. (Joyce Marshall/Star-Telegram via AP)
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FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2013, file photo, emergency personnel work the scene of a Metro-North passenger train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York. A published report says an engineer who fell asleep at the controls of a speeding train and caused the derailment that killed four people will receive a lifetime disability pension. The Journal News reports that William Rockefeller will receive $3,200 a month from Metro-North Railroad. Rockefeller was at the controls of a Metro-North train. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2016 file photo, Terri Bruce, left, a transgender man who opposed a bill South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard vetoed in March, that would have made South Dakota the first state in the U.S. to approve a law requiring transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their sex at birth. The bill drew national condemnation and is included in the AP top news stories in South Dakota this year. (AP Photo/James Nord, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2016 file photo, protesters march at Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D. It has been called the largest gathering of Native American tribes in a century. Tribal members and others have joined in an ongoing, tense protest against the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline, which the Standing Rock Sioux believes threatens sacred sites and a river that provides drinking water for millions of people. The protest is included in the AP top news stories in North Dakota this year. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015, a migrant child walks at the "Horgos 2" border crossing that leads into Hungary, from Horgos, Serbia, with the old Yugoslav communist flag on the abandoned border point. Europe’s open borders seem to symbolize liberty and forward thinking, but they increasingly look like the continent’s Achilles’ heel, with its inability to implement cross border security. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, FILE)
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In this Nov. 14, 2016 photo, Mayor Chris Louras poses outside an exhibit featuring Syrian art in downtown Rutland, Vt. After months of bitter debate, the down-on-its heels city is preparing to start accepting up to 100 Syrian refugees. Louras' efforts to bring the refugees to his community was among the state's top stories in 2016. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016 file photo Bill Cosby departs after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. The trial is still months away, but the judge said prosecutors can use a deposition in which the comedian acknowledged using drugs as a seduction tool. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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In this Nov. 16, 2016 photo, author J.D. Vance, right, poses with Miami University journalism professor Patricia Gallagher Newberry after a luncheon with teachers ahead of his talk and book signing at the school's student center in Oxford, Ohio. Vance, from nearby Middletown in Ohio, is coming back to his home state to head a nonprofit aimed at helping some of the social issues he wrote about in his best-selling "Hillbilly Elegy." (AP Photo/Dan Sewell)
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In this Dec. 8, 2016 photo, Larry and Jennifer Mergentheimer sit at their dining room table with their daughter, Rebecca, in Levittown, N.Y. The Mergentheimers adopted Rebecca with the assistance of the A.M.T. Children of Hope Foundation's Baby Safe Haven program. The program encourages mothers of children unwilling or unable to care for their infants to relinquish their children at safe places like fire houses or police stations, or make arrangements with the organization to turn the children over after giving birth at a hospital. The organization then works with social services agencies to arrange for the care and eventual adoption of the children. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman)
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FILE - In this May 27, 2016 file photo, Oklahoma House Minority Leader Rep. Scott Inman, D-Del City, speaks in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma lawmakers returning to the Capitol in February, 2017, will face some familiar problems: crowded public schools with teachers desperate for a pay raise, overcrowded prisons and dozens of other cash-strapped agencies that have cut services to the bone. But also staring them in the face will be a hole in the budget estimated to be nearly $870 million, or about 12 percent of state spending, resulting from slumping energy prices and years of tax cuts. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, DEC. 24-25 - In this Friday, Dec. 16, 2016 photo, Andrea Jenkins, left, an oral historian at the University of Minnesota, interviews EJ Olson as a part of the Transgender Oral History Project at Family Tree Clinic in St. Paul, Minn. A transgender activist and poet herself, Jenkins is a leader of the project, which works to record the stories and life experiences of transgender people throughout the Midwest. (Liam James Doyle) /Pioneer Press via AP)
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In this Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016 photo, a deputy with the Marion County Sheriff's Department leads inmates to a holding area for transfer back to the county jail in downtown Indianapolis following their court appearances. Between 30 percent and 40 percent of the jail's inmates are classified as mentally ill. Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett is proposing a series of criminal justice changes aimed at making Indiana's capital the latest U.S. city to begin steering mentally ill and drug-addicted suspects into treatment instead of incarceration. (AP Photo/Rick Callahan)
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In this Dec. 22, 2016 photo, a deputy with the Marion County Sheriff's Department leads inmates to a holding area for transfer back to the county jail in downtown Indianapolis following their court appearances. Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett is proposing a series of criminal justice changes aimed at making Indiana's capital the latest U.S. city to begin steering mentally ill and drug-addicted suspects into treatment instead of incarceration. (AP Photo/Rick Callahan)
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In this Dec. 19, 2016, Father Jim Sichko handed out a $100 bills to employees at a Starbucks in Lexington, Ky. Sichko paid out about $6,000 in holiday good will to a Starbucks counter crew, a Muslim refugee family, a Hispanic family with a desperately ill father and an LGBT man who needed help with groceries for himself and his mother. (Charles Bertram/Lexington Herald-Leader via AP)
