Trump administration officials held a White House press briefing Thursday to announce the overdose death decline. Even when the administration efforts did eventually take hold, it wasn't clear that all those efforts were effective. And the surgeon general recommended prescribing or co-prescribing Naloxone -- a drug designed to reverse an opioid overdose -- alongside opioids. And some studies have indicated that expansion of Medicaid in some states is linked to a reduction in opioid overdose deaths. And though the Trump administration acknowledged the problem, he said, it was "just a drop in the bucket."

Source: CNN February 02, 2020 13:30 UTC