The White House on Thursday unveiled a new effort to streamline the country’s response to its drug and alcohol epidemic, pledging to align federal agencies in treating addiction not as a moral failure but as a medical condition.
But the announcement of the Great American Recovery Initiative, as the program is known, was light on details. During an Oval Office signing ceremony, Trump unveiled an executive order that frames addiction as a chronic, treatable disease and pledged to coordinate the federal government’s addiction efforts. Other officials also made sweeping statements about preventing and treating addiction, but provided no specifics and no promises of new funding to carry out the effort.
