Trump to declare opioid crisis a public health emergency
He'll call for all federal agencies to authorize emergency measures to reduce crisis, a step short of what he had promised to do in August – to declare a national emergency
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He'll call for all federal agencies to authorize emergency measures to reduce crisis, a step short of what he had promised to do in August – to declare a national emergency
There is concern the White House actions will be empty talk without a long-term commitment to paying for more addiction treatment
There's concern White House actions will be empty talk without a long-term commitment to paying for more addiction treatment
It's been two-and-a-half months — and thousands of deaths — since Trump said he'd declare the opioid epidemic a national emergency
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Christie said that the presidential commission to fight opioid abuse's recommendations are "lessened" without the declaration
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"I can't wait to watch them grow up and be normal children, and to see what their future brings for them..."
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