Fentanyl Awareness Day rife with absurd claims, lies, and budget cuts
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A few minutes after RFK Jr walked off the stage at the National Opioid Summit in Nashville last week, a draft budget report leaked showing Trump’s plans to cut about a dozen programs designed to help people with opioid addictions.
The draft budget proposal for HHS, which can be downloaded in its entirety here, clearly lays out plans to eliminate key programs, including the life-saving Narcan program.
RFK Jr. signaled his support for cutting the program, despite immediate backlash from medical professionals.
The proposed cuts don’t just undermine progress made in the last four years, but they undermine Trump’s own agenda.
Trump declared a public health emergency for the opioid epidemic in 2017 - and got bipartisan praise for it.
The Narcan program, in particular, is one of the most successful public health interventions of the last few decades.
