“As far back as October 2017, Trump declared the U.S. opioid crisis to be a public health emergency under federal law: “I am directing all executive agencies to use every appropriate emergency authority to fight the opioid crisis,” the president said.
Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health and senior adviser for opioid policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, told Yahoo Finance that there’s “no simple answer” for how the epidemic began.
Giroir explained that many factors play a part in this crisis, including “the overprescription and inappropriate prescription” of opioid painkillers to patients, the “availability and importation” of low-price, high-potency drugs, and “the role of state and society” in allowing the opioid crisis to build.”
Read more at: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/didnt-happen-overnight-u-s-opioid-crisis-got-bad-185552218.html
Source: Finance.Yahoo.com – December 9, 2018
