Forbes November 7, 2019
The Trump White House recently released their federal roadmap to “Stem the Opioid Crisis” in America. The report focuses primarily on research goals for the organization, but with President Trump nearing the end of his first term, the report notably feels like far too little far too late.
The report itself highlights just how delayed federal government action on the crisis has been for years outlining how the annual estimated overdose deaths in America as a result of any opioid use have increase from 8,048 in 1999 to a staggering 47,092 in 2018. While the number of opioid deaths nationally has decreased somewhat in the last year, the number of deaths compared to 20 years ago is almost six times...
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