$6 billion allotted to fight opioid epidemic — here's how we should ...

The Hill-7 hours ago

In December 2016, President Obama presided over his last official bill signing ceremony. The bill before him was the 21st Century Cures Act, a bill that authorized $1 billion to tackle the opioid epidemic. At the time, the figure was an unprecedented sum. In February 2018, over a year and almost 100,000 overdose deaths ...