Fact Checker: Trump’s claim of 'amazing' success in cutting opioid prescriptions
By Glenn Kessler Glenn Kessler The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow May 2 at 3:00 AM “One year ago, we pledged to cut nationwide opioid prescriptions by one-third. Already during my time in office, we have reduced the total amount of opioid prescribed by 34 percent. That’s a pretty amazing number.
But a White House fact sheet, issued the same day, pitched this less as an administration achievement and mentioned no goal, though it kept the time period: “In the first two years of the Administration, we saw a 34 percent decrease in the total amount of opioids prescribed.” “Measuring the decrease using monthly prescriptions is absolutely legitimate,” said an HHS spokesman. “We focus on leading indicators to help us better and more quickly respond to this crisis, rather than waiting a year to evaluate what we are doing.”
Finally, we would argue that the president’s pledge was to reduce opioids by one-third in three years dating from his speech in March 2018, because he said: “We’re going to cut nationwide opioid prescriptions by one-third over the next three years.” We reviewed administration briefings after the speech and news coverage and can find no indication it was anything other than a three-year goal starting in 2018. Reporters identified 2021 as the end date.
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