The Trump administration has named overdose prevention among its top drug policy priorities, but a White House budget proposal would cut about two dozen substance abuse prevention and treatment programs.
In a document published last month by the president’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, the first strategy listed under the first objective reads: “To combat the drug crisis and the opioid epidemic, largely driven by fentanyl, the Administration will expand access to overdose prevention education and life-saving opioid overdose reversal medications like naloxone.”
However, among the potential cuts listed in the budget proposal in April was a program that directly expands access to naloxone: a $56 million annual grant through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA, that helps distribute kits and trains first responders and others on how to use them. #CNN #News
