News White House submits Biden's first national drug control strategy to Congress

[thegreenhand]

White House submits Biden's first national drug control strategy to Congress​

Maegan Vasquez
CNN
21 Apr 2022

Excerpt:

President Joe Biden’s first National Drug Control Strategy was unveiled on Thursday, which the White House says has two main pillars: addressing untreated addiction and drug trafficking.

The release of the document, which acts as a comprehensive road map for the administration's approach to drug policy across the federal government, comes as the nation continues to experience record high drug overdose deaths. According to the latest provisional data published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 106,854 people died due to drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending November 2021.

The director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Dr. Rahul Gupta, whose agency oversees the strategy's implementation, said on a call with reporters ahead of the document's submission to Congress that it will prioritize harm reduction, access to substance use disorder treatment and the disruption of drug trafficking organizations and will ramp up data collection related to drug policy.

Full article here.

 

[thegreenhand]

Had this article bookmarked but realized I forgot to post it. oops

Cool to see harm reduction named in the plan, but we’ll see if any tangible developments actually happen…

 

[thegreenhand]

Also the official document is here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/National-Drug-Control-2022Strategy.pdf