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On the Lackluster National Response to the Opioid Epidemic

An image of a person pouring pills from a prescription bottle into their hand.

Last month, President Trump formally declared the opioid crisis a “health emergency.” Since his campaign for president, and recently in the past few months, Trump signaled his intentions to significantly combat the national epidemic. But what does it mean to declare the opioid crisis a “health emergency?”

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