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US opioid crisis: ‘national shame’, but not yet national emergency

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“Working together we will defeat this opioid epidemic”, the US President has promised. But Donald Trump stopped short of declaring a national emergency, despite pledging to do so in August. Such a declaration would have opened up access to federal funds.

Instead, as he has labelled the escalating problem of drug use a ‘national shame’ and a public health emergency.

Rob Brandt, who lost his son to drugs in 2011, runs the Opioid Recovery Center. He called for stronger action.

“It is a national…
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