Trump claims credit for progress in battling opioid epidemic
ATLANTA — President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to battle the deadly epidemic of opioid drug abuse"until our job is done" and he claimed progress even though it is unclear whether the crisis has diminished.
Before leaving the White House for the Atlanta event, Trump claimed credit for progress in combating the drug scourge. Opioid abuse claimed a record of nearly 48,000 American lives in 2017. An estimated 2 million people are addicted to the drugs, which include both legal prescription pain medications and illegal drugs such as heroin.
Humphreys said Trump's declaration of opioids addiction as a public health emergency in 2017 failed to translate into significant concrete action. Members of Congress, he said,"figured out they were going to have to do it themselves and they did." He said that almost 400 miles of wall will be in place along the border with Mexico by the end of 2020 and that it"will have a tremendous impact on drugs coming into our country."
It's difficult to get a complete and authoritative accounting of how much the federal government is spending to fight opioid abuse since it occurs across many programs, including Medicaid, which doesn't require annual funding approval from Congress, and dozens of other programs that do.
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