Opinion: Trump’s 49 seconds on the opioid epidemic: 5 questions from the front lines
It's my job to fight the opioid epidemic. The federal government isn't helping. I have five questions for President Trump.
President Trump’s State of the Union address was 80 minutes long. He spent just 49 seconds on the opioid epidemic, something he has declared to be a public health emergency.
The brevity of his remarks on opioids is indicative of the lack of action taken by the federal government in the three months since the emergency declaration. For us on the front lines of the epidemic in Baltimore, as elsewhere around the country, the declaration has had no impact at all. The federal government continues to delay committing new funding to treating addiction as the disease that it is, while hundreds
