President Trump must formally declare the opioid epidemic a national health emergency to free up resources that public health officials and states can then use to help treat pain safely and ultimately end the epidemic.
Why is this important?
Opioids claim the lives of 91 individuals every day. With nearly 60,000 overdose deaths in 2016, 60% of which were related to prescription opioids, it is clear that there is a major public health crisis in our country.
