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How the Trump White House works against itself in its efforts to prevent overdoses

prevent overdoses Within just a few weeks, the [Trump administration](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration) has proposed multiple contradictory policies

Natural disasters can cause another crisis for those recovering from opioid addiction

overdose deaths. "We make it so challenging for them to access treatment medications in the first place," said [Elizabeth Cerceo](https://cmsru.rowan.edu/faculty-profiles/medicine/teaching-faculty/cerceo-elizabeth.html), the climate health director at Rowan University's Cooper Medical School

Inside the CDC’s leadership vacuum: work at a ‘standstill’ and low morale as 80% of top posts remain vacant

prevention, has an acting director but no permanent leader. Dr Demetre Daskalakis [resigned last August](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/28/trump-news-at-a-glance-top-cdc-officials-resign-over-weaponization-of-public-health) as director of the CDC’s national center for immunization and respiratory diseases, a role in which

As fentanyl crisis evolves, experts say US is still ‘behind the eight ball’

prevention. Watkins, for his part, is trying to be the kind of person he needed when he was at the lowest point of his own addiction journey. He once called the police on himself because