Less than a week after Donald Trump declared America’s opioid epidemic a national public-health emergency, the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis released its final set of policy recommendations. The panel called on Congress and the White House to consider fifty-six proposals, among them streamlining federal funding for addiction treatment, instituting stricter prison sentences for some opioid traffickers, and launching an “aggressive” TV and social-media campaign to dissuade children and teens from taking the drugs. The commission also urged the Department of Health and Human Services to develop “a national curriculum and standard of care for opioid prescribers,” to supplement the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s existing guide for primary-care physicians.
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