Trump Signs Bipartisan Opioid Bill Aimed at Curbing National Crisis

President Trump has signed a comprehensive bipartisan bill into law to make medical treatment for opioid addiction more widely available while also cracking down on illegal drugs being sent through the mail, reports Fox News . The measure will expand access to substance abuse treatment in Medicaid. Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar suggested multi-pronged initiatives, including an increase in medication-assisted treatment and greater access to naloxone, are helping to stem the crisis. He further noted that toward the end of 2017 and through the beginning of 2018, the number of deaths "has begun to plateau." However, Azar cautioned that the country remains "so far from the end of the epidemic. But we are perhaps, at the beginning of the end."