The following article by Joe Davidson was posted on the Washington Post website May 21, 2018:
In an effort to combat the opioid crisis, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces a new task force targeting opioid distributors and manufacturers. (The Washington Post)
Opening statements at congressional hearings often are predictable. But not those at a House hearing on the opioid crisis and the Trump administration’s inadequate reaction to it.
It’s too bad no one from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) testified at Thursday’s Oversight and Government Reform Committee session, which was called to discuss the office’s reauthorization. Had its officials, or Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway, who leads his opioid initiative, been there, they would have heard moving, heartfelt stories from the panel’s bipartisan leadership that went beyond the usual perfunctory remarks. Continue reading “Trump’s opioid strategy ‘missing in action’ as 115 people die every day”