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White House Opioids Summit Highlights Plans to Fight Crisis

March 10, 2018 by ATForum

“Attendees at a White House Opioids Summit on Thursday — including President Donald J. Trump, cabinet members, and the surgeon general — detailed programs and voiced ideas to fight the opioid epidemic.

“It’s a problem that is growing,” Trump said. “People go into the hospital with a broken arm and they come out addicted, and they don’t even know what happened.”

His administration plans to roll out new policy over the next 3 weeks, and it will be “very, very strong,” Trump said.

He suggested the option of the death penalty for drug dealers, although that is not an item in any official policy.”

Read more at: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/893335

Source: Medscape.com – March 2, 2018

See related article: Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump is Combatting the Opioid Crisis available at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trump-combatting-opioid-crisis/

See related article: HHS Secretary Alex Azar commits to approaching opioid epidemic as a ‘medical challenge’ rather than moral failing’ available at: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hhs-secretary-alex-azar-commits-to-approaching-opioid-epidemic-as-a-medical-challenge-rather-than-moral-failing/article/2650451

Filed Under: 2018, News Updates

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