The following article by Rachel Roubein and Nathaniel Weixel was posted on the Hill website October 26, 2017:
Advocates for greater opioid treatment panned the president’s long-awaited declaration of a public health emergency, saying they need dollars to fight the epidemic killing tens of thousands of Americans every year.
President Trump’s declaration, promised in August, doesn’t include millions in new federal funding. Nor did it ask Congress to appropriate any new money, and Democrats are calling for tens of billions in more funds.
A robust effort to combat the crisis of deaths from prescription painkillers and heroin requires the requisite resources to fund treatment, prevention and education, advocates and Democratic lawmakers said. Continue reading “Advocates pan Trump effort on opioid crisis”