Mar-a-Lago, FL – In a new Agenda47 video, President Trump announced his plan to eradicate drug addiction in America.
“We will not rest until the drug addiction crisis is over,” said President Trump. “For the three decades before my election, drug overdose deaths increased every year. Under my leadership, we addressed the drug and fentanyl crisis head-on and achieved the first reduction in overdose deaths in thirty years.
President Trump proudly signed the Support Act—the largest investment to date in combating the opioid epidemic.
After President Trump returns to the White House, he will forge new public-private partnerships for companies willing to provide job opportunities and skills training to former addicts and expand federal support for faith-based counseling, treatment, and recovery programs.
Saving American lives: President Trump vows he won’t rest until we end this crisis. President Trump:
- Impose full naval sanctions against drug cartels and deploy military assets to inflict maximum damage on cartel operations.
- Insist on the full cooperation of neighboring governments to eradicate trafficking and smuggling networks in our region.
- Ask Congress to impose the death penalty on drug dealers and human traffickers.
- The U.S. is committed to eradicating the gangs and organized street crime that distribute these deadly drugs at the local level. Direct federal law enforcement.
President Donald J. Trump Announces Plan to Destroy the Drug Cartels
- Permanently designate fentanyl as a federally controlled substance.
- Tell China they will pay a high price if they don’t stop exporting chemical precursors to fentanyl.
- Strengthen the pillars of work, faith, and family that give meaning and hope to live for those struggling with addiction.
- Make it easier for people with addiction to get treatment without losing their jobs.
- Create new public-private partnerships for companies willing to provide job opportunities and skills training to ex-addicts.
- Expand federal support for faith-based counseling, treatment, and recovery programs.
- If a parent, child, spouse, or relative needs to take time off for a family member struggling to overcome addiction, make sure they can take advantage of the family leave program.
Addressing the Drug Overdose Epidemic: President Trump’s new plan builds on historic steps he took during his administration to combat America’s drug addiction crisis.
- President Trump’s efforts to combat the drug crisis have led to the first reduction in drug overdose deaths in 30 years.
- Between 2017 and 2019, drug overdose deaths decreased by 16.8% in Ohio, 18.7% in Pennsylvania, and 10.6% in West Virginia.
- Drug overdose deaths in New Hampshire decreased by 15% between 2017 and 2020.
- Under Biden, overdose deaths in New Hampshire increased by 12%.
- In 2017, President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency and launched an all-government effort to combat it.
- President Trump signs the Support Act—the largest investment ever in combating the opioid epidemic.
- As of October 2018, President Trump has secured $6 billion to fight the epidemic.
- The Trump administration has awarded a record $9 billion in federal grants to state and local communities to increase access to treatment and prevention services.
- President Trump provided a fivefold increase in funding to help communities prevent and treat addiction, issuing 8,000 grants to 1,800 new state and local partners.
- President Trump launched an initiative to stop opioid abuse and reduce drug supply and demand to combat many of the factors fueling the drug crisis.
- The Trump Administration has partnered with the Truth Initiative and the Ad Council to launch a media campaign to educate Americans about opioid abuse. The campaign reached 58% of young Americans.
- President Trump struck a deal with China to crack down on the production and export of fentanyl chemical precursors.
- Under Biden, cooperation between China and the US on drug trafficking has almost ceased.
- Under the Trump administration, the Justice Department prosecuted more fentanyl traffickers than ever before and dismantled 3,000 drug trafficking organizations.
- The Trump Administration oversaw a 34% drop in the amount of opioids prescribed nationwide from 2017 to 2019.
- DEA’s National Take Back Days reclaim a record 4.7 million pounds of unused drugs.
BIDEN’S FAILURE TO STOP THE DRUG ADDICTION CRISIS: Biden’s reckless open-borders policy has allowed deadly drugs to pour into our country, making it impossible to properly combat the drug overdose epidemic.
- President Trump’s hard-won progress on the drug overdose crisis has been squandered as Biden hands over our southern border to the cartels.
- Millions of pounds of deadly drugs are now pouring across Biden’s wide-open border and claiming the lives of 100,000 Americans every year.
- Two-thirds of these deaths involve ultra-lethal fentanyl, which is smuggled into our country primarily through Mexico.
- Biden has ended nearly every one of Trump’s successful border policies, including ending catch-and-release, remaining in Mexico, Title 42, and Trump-era asylum cooperation agreements. Under Biden, construction of the wall has been halted and internal enforcement has effectively been scrapped.
- The amount of fentanyl seized at the border will triple from 2020 to 2022.
- In the first five months of this year, the Border Patrol seized enough fentanyl to kill 100 million people.
- It is estimated that federal agents are only able to seize 5 to 10 percent of all drugs smuggled across the border from Mexico.
- Drug cartels and human smugglers are profiting from Biden’s open border, raking in $13 billion in revenue last year—a 2,500% increase from 2018.
- Fueled in large part by Biden’s border disaster, fentanyl deaths have increased 94% since 2019, and fentanyl is now the leading cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45.