| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | International
Trump Plans to Declare Opioid Epidemic a National Emergency
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Thursday that he was preparing to officially declare the United States’ worsening epidemic of opioid overdoses as a national emergency, accepting an urgent recommendation from a national commission that he appointed. (New York Times, 10.08.2017)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/us/politics/opioid-trump-emergency.html