On October 27, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra announced a sweeping federal plan to address and reduce the devastating toll of overdoses in America with the release of the HHS Overdose Prevention Strategy.
In the agency’s press release, Secretary Becerra noted that with the new strategy, HHS will be “breaking new ground to address the full range of drug use and addiction.” Specifically, Becerra commented that the “new strategy focuses on people – putting the very individuals who have struggled with addiction in positions of power.”
The HHS strategy will focus on four areas including “primary prevention, harm reduction, evidence-based treatment, and recovery support.”
It’s a worthwhile goal, and long overdue. According to data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, between 1999 and 2019, nearly half a million Americans (495,892) died from an opioid overdose.
Lindsey Stroud – Townhall – 2021-11-02.
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