The Biden administration on Thursday said it’s spending $450 million in the fight against drug overdoses, doling out dollars for rural communities, data collection and a fentanyl-awareness campaign as fentanyl kills tens of thousands of Americans despite years of Washington efforts to tackle the problem.
The new funding is part of President Biden’s two-track strategy of treating addiction and expanding the use of overdose-reversing naloxone, which will be available over the counter in the coming days, while disrupting the trafficking streams of fentanyl and other illicit drugs.
The administration said grants will flow directly to cities and counties and not just state health departments. Administrations from both parties have spent billions on the opioid problem through congressional appropriations. The effort ramped up after deadly synthetic opioids entered the street drug supply during the middle of the past decade.
“When these drug pushers are bringing fentanyl across the border, that’s going to be the last thing they do. We’re going to use force and we’re going to leave them stone-cold dead,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said from the Milwaukee stage. Dr. Gupta insisted Mr. Biden is taking a tough stance on Chinese chemical suppliers. The director pointed to sanctions on Chinese companies and stiffer “know your customer” protocols that require Chinese shipments to have details on senders and recipients.
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