Hey Trump, the 1970s called and it wants its drug policies back

The Trump administration, finally yielding to a screaming chorus of pleas to fulfil a promise made two months ago to tackle America’s opioid crisis, last week declared it a “national public health emergency”. Between pledge and action, 10,000 more have died of an overdose.

The declaration, his officials explained, would increase access to emergency federal funding… eventually.

At 175 deaths per day, 64,000 deaths per year and with overdoses now the leading cause of accidental death in the US, we finally