Trump to declare opioid epidemic public health emergency – here’s what that means
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President Trump is officially declaring the opioid crisis a “public health emergency.”
Trump told reporters in August that the epidemic is a “serious problem the likes of which we have never had” and had promised to declare it a national emergency.
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