What you missed while following Charlottesville: The opioid emergency
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The opioid emergency
- "The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I'm saying officially, right now, it is an emergency ... It's a national emergency. We're going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis," Trump said last week. But, in the week following his announcement, the president has not taken the legal steps necessary to implement national emergency protocol.
- The steps: Trump first needs to give official notice to Congress that he is declaring a national emergency. Then the declaration is published in the Federal Register.
- The unknowns: Without an official declaration, it is unclear how the Trump administration plans to respond to the opioid crisis. It could be a mobilization of medical resources or a mobilization of law enforcement — two very different things, Rachel Sachs, a law professor at the Washington University in St. Louis, told Axios.
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