{"id":4481,"date":"2026-08-15T17:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4481"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:07:19","slug":"are-the-trump-admins-efforts-to-combat-us-addiction-crisis-actually-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4481","title":{"rendered":"Are The Trump Admin\u2019s Efforts To Combat US Addiction Crisis Actually Working?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Experts are split on whether the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to confront the U.S.\u2019 ongoing opioid crisis have made significant progress.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4480\">Witkoff, Trump Family Crypto Firm Granted Conditional Bank Charter From Federal Regulator<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump has previously vowed to \u201caddress the addiction crisis\u201d in the U.S. However, analysts told the Daily Caller News Foundation that while the president\u2019s administration has made major moves to crack down on illicit drug use and overdose deaths across the nation, the government should consider taking further steps, such as bolstering access to evidence-based treatment and prioritizing harm reduction techniques.<strong>(RELATED: China\u2019s New Strategy For Selling Drugs to Americans)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Trump administration deserves credit for recognizing that illicit fentanyl is simultaneously a medical crisis, a transnational organized crime enterprise and a national security threat,\u201d Oxford Treatment Center Medical Director Lucas Trautman told the DCNF. <\/p>\n<p>He added that the administration\u2019s \u201cmost consequential actions\u201d on the matter include designating fentanyl-trafficking organizations as foreign terrorist organizations as well as \u201cpermanently placing fentanyl-related substances in Schedule I through the HALT Fentanyl Act, targeting precursor chemical brokers and transnational financial facilitators and using new Treasury authorities against financial institutions responsible for laundering opioid profits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump signed the HALT Fentanyl Act into law in July 2025, which permanently classifies fentanyl-related substances as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p>Trautman pointed out that overdose deaths involving opioids \u201cfell from an estimated 55,296 in 2024 to 44,564 in 2025, while fentanyl-associated mortality also declined substantially.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, we must acknowledge that overdose mortality began declining after its 2022 peak and fell sharply in 2024, before President Trump returned to office,\u201d he aded. \u201cThe administration can reasonably claim that its actions may be helping sustain and deepen the decline, but it cannot scientifically claim sole authorship of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not return the DCNF\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>However, other analysts have contested the notion that the incumbent administration has made significant progress on the issue.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no evidence that the Trump administration has made any progress in tackling the overdose crisis \u2026 the recent decline in overdose deaths likely reflects several interacting factors \u2014 including the unwinding of pandemic-era disruptions that caused overdose deaths to spike, changes in the illicit drug supply and patterns of drug use, greater naloxone availability, and harm-reduction efforts,\u201d The Cato Institute Senior Fellow Jeffrey Singer told the DCNF. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdd to this the fact that young people are drinking, vaping, and using drugs at record low levels. The evidence does not support claims that intensified drug-war enforcement deserves substantial credit for the decline, and it remains uncertain whether the decline will continue,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Recent reports suggest that many Generation Z Americans are abstaining from using drugs and also often drinking less alcohol than other generations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the administration is turning back the clock by reversing course on earlier efforts to encourage clinicians and private organizations to adopt proven harm reduction techniques, such as syringe services programs, overdose prevention centers, and expanded access to methadone\u2014all of which have a decades-long track record of reducing overdoses and the spread of disease, and help explain why overdose deaths are so much lower in comparator countries that embrace harm reduction,\u201d Singer added. \u201cThese strategies, which the current administration appears to be abandoning, might have largely contributed to the post-pandemic decline in overdose deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4477\">Beijing\u2019s Voyage Through Frozen Waters Could Change Shipping Forever<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration recently slashed federal funds for certain harm reduction initiatives aiming to make illicit drug use safer, such as needle-exchange programs and drug-testing strips, Politico reported on July 18. Some Republican-controlled states are now bolstering their own funding for such programs in response to the funding cuts, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Harm reduction efforts prioritize \u201cthe prevention of harm, rather than on the prevention of substance use itself,\u201d according to the Recovery Research Institute. Though, many Republicans have previously claimed that such initiatives can actually encourage addiction and substance use, Axios reported.<\/p>\n<p>Overdose deaths involving opioids in the U.S. rose from 49,860 in 2019 to 81,806 in 2022, before dropping to 79,358 in 2023, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Total opioid-involved overdose deaths declined from 55,296 in 2024 to 44,564 in 2025, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Trump issued an executive order aiming to \u201cdrive a new national response to the disease of addiction that will create stronger coordination across government, the healthcare sector, faith communities, and the private sector in order to save lives, restore families, strengthen our communities, and build the Great American Recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The administration touted major progress on blocking illicit fentanyl and other drugs from crossing into the U.S. via the southern border in January, Spectrum News 1 reported. Additionally, the White House\u2019s Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) published a statement of \u201cDrug Policy Priorities\u201d in April 2025, which \u201clays out the urgent, first-year steps that must be taken to address the scourge of illicit drug use that continues plaguing our nation and taking American lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe implementation of these priorities will complement President Trump\u2019s tireless efforts to stop Foreign Terrorist Organizations, cartels, and drug traffickers from harming Americans, and will help build a safer, healthier future for America,\u201d per the ONDCP\u2019s press release.<\/p>\n<p>Trump similarly took steps to reduce overdose deaths during his first term, including unveiling $1.8 billion in new grants aiming to help U.S. states combat the opioid crisis and \u201chelp prevent more American lives from being lost to overdose,\u201d according to a September 2019 White House fact sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Trautman also told the DCNF that the government \u201cshould measure success by more than [illicit drug] seizures or arrests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. is finally moving in the right direction, and the mortality decline is real, as I am witnessing as an addictionologist in Mississippi and Tennessee,\u201d he explained. \u201cBut declaring victory prematurely would be dangerous. We will save the most lives when national security pressure on the supply chain is paired with immediate, low-barrier access to evidence-based treatment, buprenorphine and methadone, at every point where patients are most vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4473\">Mundane DOJ Memo On Post Office Gun Bans Is Actually Bigger Deal Than You Think<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government still has a long way to go in solving the U.S.\u2019 ongoing opioid crisis, according to experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[709,2500,548,3787,513,183,138],"class_list":["post-4481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","tag-drugs","tag-fentanyl","tag-health","tag-opioid-crisis","tag-politics","tag-trump-administration","tag-white-house"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are The Trump Admin\u2019s Efforts To Combat US Addiction Crisis Actually Working? 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