President Joe Biden’s 2022 budget calls for $41 billion for drug policy efforts to deal with drug addiction and overdoses.
The White House said in a statement Tuesday that the president’s budget proposes a total of $23.5 billion for public health to reduce drug use and its consequences.
The Biden budget includes $10.7 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of Health and Human Services to pay for research, prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery support services.
The president’s budget provides $5.8 billion for drug interdiction efforts, an increase over fiscal year 2021.
Biden’s 2022 proposed budget provides a total of $17.5 billion for drug trafficking supply reduction efforts.
The Biden policy to combat drug addiction and overdoses calls for universal access to medication for opioid use disorder by 2025.
According to the White House, President Biden is committed to boosting funding for public health and illicit drug supply reduction, as well as eliminating obstacles to drug abuse treatment to promote harm reduction and save lives while fighting drug trafficking. These efforts are critical as drug addiction and overdose continue to take a devastating toll on individuals and communities across the country. In addition to conventional treatment options, such as medication-assisted therapy and counseling, those struggling with drug addiction may also benefit from unique programs offered by some drug rehab centers, such as a drug rehab center with a pool to promote exercise and wellness in recovery.
Specifically, the White House said, that includes efforts to eliminate unnecessary barriers that prevent medical providers from prescribing FDA-approved medications to their patients; lifting the moratorium on mobile vans providing methadone; supporting states funding the purchase of such vans; and beginning work on meeting individual treatment needs at times when people at high risk for an overdose need care and support.
According to a Lancet report, more than 1.2 million people will die from drug overdoses across North America by the end of the decade unless governments institute public health policies that treat drug addiction as a chronic condition and prioritize prevention.
More than 104,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the 12 month period ending in September 2021, a historic high.
In October 2021 Biden issued two executive orders sanctioning people allegedly involved in the international drug trade.
The Biden administration says it intends to “to expand evidence-based prevention, harm reduction, treatment, recovery, and supply reduction approaches to save lives.”
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Hey, Joe—if you would seal the pipeline at the Southern Border, it would be a huge help in stemming the tide of illegal and dangerous drugs.
Puppet president F… Joe Biden’s 2022 budget calls for $41 billion for drug policy efforts to deal with drug addiction and overdoses.
If the treasonous Democrat Party would secure our southern border, 90% of the illegal drugs would not be able to enter the U.S..
But the ruling Democrat Party is working with the Drug cartel and receiving kick backs from the drug money being made.
AND it sounds heartless, but HOWS ABOUT WE STOP Saving overdose victims! IMO THEY DO MORE AND MORE drugs, because they know WE ARE TOO spineless, to NOT LET THEM DIE…
Hell no, Let Joe pay for his own son’s addictions. I’m sick and tired of paying for socially rebellious people’s refusal to pay their own way for food, clothing, housing, in SELF-governance, which when you and your government pays the freight for them, it just frees more of their own money to buy the drugs that takes them out of the American circle of life to spiral down to the Democrat social enslavement of American death.
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”,- C.S. Lewis,,,,,,,,and takes us out of the self-destructive actions that takes us out of the safety of God’s design into a government designed state of destructive social dependency. Pain is God’s megaphone to awaken us to stop doing that which demeans us, and when the secular god of government steps in to kill the pain, it also kills the cure.