Trump: ‘We Will Be Spending the Most Money Ever on the Opioid Crisis’

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TRUMP: "Every day 116 Americans die from an opioid-related overdose. In New Hampshire, the death rate, can you believe this, the death rate is double the national average. It has difficulties like people wouldn’t believe. Defeating this epidemic will require the commitment of every state, local, and federal agency. Failure is not an option. Addiction is not our future. We will liberate our country from this crisis. Never been like this. Hundreds of years, never been like this. And we will raise a drug-free generation of American children. Last October we declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. Should have been done a long time before. Since then, we’ve worked with Congress to ensure at least 6 billion additional dollars, going through right now, in new funding in 2018 and 2019 to combat the opioid crisis, and we will be spending the most money ever on the opioid crisis.”