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Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price made an announcement @ a drug prevention summit in Atlanta that'll help with the current opioid crisis.
The announcement was that the federal govt will provide states with $485 million for prevention and treatment programs. The money will be in the form of a grants and was contained in bipartisan legislation approved by Congress in 2016 and signed by President Obama. **Makes sense as to why this is actually getting done...cause Trump has nothing to do with this, it was already done.** Price also announced that another 1/2 billion in grants will be made available next year as well. "States know best what their communities needs and have already been @ the forefront of supporting prevention, treatment, and recovery," he said during the summit. The grants will be used for training health professionals, technology and support for prescription drug monitoring programs that will hopefully prevent abuse and identify patients who may need addiction help. Grant will also be used to promote the use of the overdose antidote drug Naloxone. He confirmed that the Trump administration has a 5 part strategy to combat the crisis:
Quick fact: In 2015 alone, 33,000 plus people fatally overdosed on opioids, i.e. prescription drugs and heroin; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, no other year on record has seen a higher number; nearly 1/2 the deaths involved a prescription opioid My thoughts: Trump and his administration hasn't gotten anything positive done since he's been in office and when I saw President Obama's name attached to this, it made sense on why this is actually moving forward. Hopefully, Trump and his administration will hold true to this strategy they allegedly have and hopefully, he'll actually put people on this task force to combat opioids that know what they're doing, if not, it'll fail like everything else this man and his administration have touched.
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