{"id":11794,"date":"2016-03-29T14:43:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T14:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nasadad.org\/?p=11794"},"modified":"2018-04-06T22:10:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T22:10:48","slug":"president-obama-speaks-at-the-2016-national-rx-drug-abuse-and-heroin-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nasadad.org\/2016\/03\/president-obama-speaks-at-the-2016-national-rx-drug-abuse-and-heroin-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Speaks at the 2016 National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama plans to deliver a speech at the 2016 National Rx Drug Abuse &amp; Heroin Summit on 3\/29 at 2:15 PM EST. The President&#8217;s remarks will discuss the actions currently being taken to prevent the spread of opioid use disorders and will examine future policies for expanding access to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rehabnear.me\/christian-drug-rehab\/\">best drug treatment centers for christians<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The speech is the latest in a series of announcements demonstrating President Obama&#8217;s commitment to addressing the opioid crisis. The President&#8217;s proposed FY 2017 budget requests $1.1 billion in new spending to expand State access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT). Michael Botticelli, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, writes that the Administration is also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Expanding access to treatment through doctors, community health centers, and state programs.<\/li>\n<li>Investing in partnerships between law enforcement and communities.<\/li>\n<li>Working to save more lives by making the overdose reversal drug naloxone more readily available to first responders.<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring those on Medicaid and CHIP can access mental health and substance use services as readily as medical services.<\/li>\n<li>Pulling together medical schools to train students on the newest CDC guidelines for prescribing opioid painkillers.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>View the Administration&#8217;s new series of proposals to address the opioid epidemic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/03\/29\/fact-sheet-obama-administration-announces-additional-actions-address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch President Obama&#8217;s speech <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/live\/president-obama-speaks-national-rx-drug-abuse-heroin-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama plans to deliver a speech at the 2016 National Rx Drug Abuse &amp; Heroin Summit on 3\/29 at 2:15 PM EST. The President&#8217;s remarks will discuss the actions currently being taken to prevent the spread of opioid use disorders and will examine future policies for expanding access to the best drug treatment centers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nasadad.org\/2016\/03\/president-obama-speaks-at-the-2016-national-rx-drug-abuse-and-heroin-summit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">President Obama Speaks at the 2016 National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"aaa","author_link":"https:\/\/nasadad.org\/author\/aaa_test_user\/"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73gOt-34e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nasadad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nasadad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nasadad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nasadad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nasadad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nasadad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nasadad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nasadad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nasadad.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}