The emergency declaration was a start. Here’s how else Trump plans to combat the opioid epidemic

President Trump’s remarks Thursday that he was directing his administration to declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency mostly focused on the extent of the problem and highlighted in broad strokes that the country would find ways to combat the crisis.

But Trump also laid out ways in which his administration would be attempting to combat the opioid epidemic.

Here are a few of the steps Trump mentioned.

Treatment beds

By law, federal Medicaid dollars cannot go to facilities that