Thousands Died in Opioid Crisis While Trump Commission Stalled on Delivering Crucial Report

Summary: The President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis called on President Trump Monday to declare a public health emergency over the epidemic of overdose deaths nationwide. This urgency came in an interim report by the commission that was itself more than a month late. Per Trump’s executive order establishing the commission, interim recommendations were due June 27, with a final report October 1.