When This Blows Over

Preliminary data shows overdose deaths fell nationwide in 2018 for the first
time in decades.
Many of the hardest hit states – including Ohio, Kentucky, and West
Virginia – saw drug overdose deaths drop in 2018.
Since 2016, there has been a nearly 40 percent increase in the number of
Americans receiving medication-assisted treatment.
PUTTING PATIENTS FIRST: President Trump is working hard to give
Americans better quality care at a lower cost.
The Administration is delivering quality
healthcare and promoting innovative
treatment options for American patients.
Earlier this year, President Trump signed
an order to protect and improve Medicare
for our seniors, encouraging even more
competition and promoting innovative
benefits.
Signed and implemented the Right to Try
Act, which has expanded treatment
options for terminally ill patients.
The President has taken action to combat childhood cancer, initiating an
effort to provide $500 million over the next decade to improve pediatric
cancer research.
The President signed legislation providing an additional $1 billion in
Alzheimer’s disease research funding.
The Administration launched a plan to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in
America in the next decade.
President Trump took action to increase the availability of organs for
patients in need of transplants and provide more treatment options and
improve care for patients suffering from kidney disease.