The White House is touting progress in the battle against the country's opioid epidemic, but health policy researchers warn the Trump administration against claiming credit, and say planned cuts to Medicaid funding could exacerbate the crisis.
"In President Trump's first year in office, overdose deaths grew by 10 percent, having grown by 22 percent the year before," Conway said during the call."So the rate of death increased at a rate less than half of what had increased just the year before." "There are some positive signs, but I don't believe the Trump Administration deserves credit for them. In fact, there is a lot more the Trump administration and the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] could be doing to promote more cautious prescribing and properly regulating opioid makers," said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, the co-director of opioid policy research at Brandeis University.
Keith Humphreys, a Stanford professor and former senior policy adviser at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said the Trump administration's report had"no central direction" and that there is no proper spokesperson for the epidemic. While the declining trend in prescriptions is encouraging, over-prescribing is still a problem, he added.
The number of opioid prescriptions has been falling since 2012. Prescriptions dipped substantially from 214.8 million in 2016 to 191.2 million in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Just curious, when you compare the Trump Administration to the Obama Administration efforts on this massive project...how do they compare?
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