{"id":82174,"date":"2017-08-11T09:16:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T09:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/trump-declares-opioid-crisis-a-national-emergency\/"},"modified":"2017-08-11T09:16:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T09:16:21","slug":"trump-declares-opioid-crisis-a-national-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/trump-declares-opioid-crisis-a-national-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump declares opioid crisis a &#8216;national emergency&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>US President Donald Trump said Thursday that the opioid crisis in the United States constitutes a &#8220;national emergency&#8221; and pledged to step up efforts to fight the epidemic.\n                                <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opioid crisis is an emergency,&#8221; Trump told reporters at his New Jersey country club, where he is on a two-week working vacation. &#8220;It&#8217;s a national emergency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;It is a serious problem, the likes of which we have never had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s declaration of a &#8220;national emergency&#8221; came two days after he held a meeting with top advisers to discuss tackling the drug problem.<\/p>\n<p>Trump &#8220;has instructed his Administration to use all appropriate emergency and other authorities to respond to the crisis caused by the opioid epidemic,&#8221; a statement issued by his office said.<\/p>\n<p>Prescription painkillers and heroin contributed to some 60,000 overdose deaths in the United States in 2016, a 19 percent surge over the previous year, according to an estimate compiled by the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose Department of Justice last week announced a new &#8216;Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit&#8217;, added: &#8220;This nation has never seen overdose deaths<\/a> anywhere close to these numbers, and for each death, many more suffer debilitating addictions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An estimated two to three million people are hooked on prescription painkillers<\/a> or heroin, according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and 90 people die every day in the United States from opioid<\/a> overdoses.\n                                                                <\/p>\n<p class=\"news-relevant\">\n                                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"toolsicon ic-rel\" src=\"https:\/\/b98584f181.site.internapcdn.net\/tmpl\/v5\/img\/1x1.gif\" width=\"14\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n                                        <b>Explore further:<\/b><br \/>\n                                        U.S. opioid crisis continues to worsen<\/a>\n                                    <\/p>\n<footer class=\"post-floor clearfix\">\n                                    <!-- rating --><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"toolsicon icon-fbck\" src=\"https:\/\/b98584f181.site.internapcdn.net\/tmpl\/v5\/img\/1x1.gif\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" alt=\"feedback\" \/><br \/>\n                                                feedback to editors<br \/>\n                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<section class=\"copyright\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t                                                \u00a9 2017 AFP<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/footer>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump said Thursday that the opioid crisis in the United States constitutes a &#8220;national emergency&#8221; and pledged to step up efforts to fight the epidemic. &#8220;The opioid crisis is an emergency,&#8221; Trump told reporters at his New Jersey country club, where he is on a two-week working vacation. &#8220;It&#8217;s a national emergency. 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