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President Donald Trump signed a sweeping legislative package on Wednesday aimed at battling the opioid epidemic. It includes dozens of provisions, including expanding access to treatment and recovery programs, and has overwhelming bipartisan support. “Together we are going to end the scourge of drug addiction in America,” said Trump. “We are going to end it or we are going to at least make an extremely big dent in this terrible, terrible problem.” But many drug policy experts say the legislation is an incremental, election year response that doesn’t do nearly enough to tackle an overdose epidemic that killed an estimated 72,000 Americans last year.

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