| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | International
USA. Short Answers to Hard Questions About the Opioid Crisis
On Thursday, President Trump said he intended to declare the opioid crisis a national emergency, as previously recommended by his opioid commission.
With the death toll from drugs rising faster than ever, you might feel that you could use a little catching up. For a quick refresher, and more on the practical effects of a formal declaration of an emergency, here are answers to 12 critical questions. (New York Times, 10.08.2017)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/03/upshot/opioid-drug-overdose-epidemic.html