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“The best way to prevent drug addiction and overdose is to prevent people from abusing drugs in the first place.  If they don’t start, they won’t have a problem.” – President Donald J. Trump DRUG ADDICTION AND OPIOIDS ARE RAVAGING AMERICA: Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost their lives to drug abuse, and it […]

This is part two of a report published by the Council on Foreign Relations. You can read part 1 here.  Where are the heroin and fentanyl coming from? The opioid crisis has also become a national security concern. Most of the heroin coming into the United States is cultivated on poppy farms in Mexico, with […]

Introduction The United States is grappling with one of its worst-ever drug crises. More than a thousand people a week die from opioid-related overdoses, and some experts say the death toll may not peak for years. Meanwhile, millions more Americans suffer from opioid addiction. The crisis has reached such a scale that, beyond the risks […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is awarding nearly $30 million in new funding to states across the country to bolster data collection efforts that federal officials view as key to combating opioid addiction. The federal government will divvy up $28.6 million across three data-driven initiatives in 44 states and the District of Columbia, the CDC […]

President Donald Trump overrode his own advisers when he promised to deliver an emergency declaration next week to combat the nation’s worsening opioid crisis. “That is a very, very big statement,” he said Monday. “It’s a very important step. … We’re going to be doing it in the next week.” Blindsided officials are now scrambling […]

Senators Maggie Hassan, Joe Manchin and Rob Portman gathered today for a Washington Post panel discussing America’s opioid crisis. The Senators from New Hampshire,  West Virginia, and Ohio are some of the leading voices on Capitol Hill addressing this issue. Here they discuss how the epidemic has impacted their home states and the actions Congress is […]

A landmark report released Thursday by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy places drug and alcohol addiction alongside smoking, AIDS and other public health crises of the past ­half-century, calling the current epidemic “a moral test for America.” “The reason I’m issuing this report is I want to call our country to action around what […]