--- title: Donald Trump on Opioid Crisis: Watch Online description: President Donald Trump is scheduled to discuss the ongoing opioid epidemic at the White House Thursday. Watch online at 2 p.m. E.T. canonical: https://time.com/4998663/donald-trump-on-opioid-crisis-watch-live/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-26T15:46:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T18:00:47.832Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump to Discuss Opioid Crisis: Watch Online og:description: Watch his remarks here live at 2 p.m. E.T. og:url: https://time.com/4998663/donald-trump-on-opioid-crisis-watch-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4125a85676e80eb3/6988e3848fd2ee591b35965e/gettyimages-866529540.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Donald Trump departs for Texas to attend a briefing on hurricane relief efforts, in Washington, DC. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump to Discuss Opioid Crisis: Watch Online twitter:description: Watch his remarks here live at 2 p.m. E.T. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4125a85676e80eb3/6988e3848fd2ee591b35965e/gettyimages-866529540.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: President Trump to Declare the Opioid Crisis a Public Health Emergency by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Oct 26, 2017 3:46 PM UTC  President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters on the way to Marine One before departing for Texas to attend a briefing on hurricane relief efforts on October, 25, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump takes questions from reporters on the way to Marine One before departing for Texas to attend a briefing on hurricane relief efforts on October, 25, 2017 in Washington, DC.Photo by Bill O'Leary—The Washington Post/Getty by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Oct 26, 2017 3:46 PM UTC President Donald Trump is expected to [declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency](http://time.com/4998458/donald-trump-opioid-crisis-emergency/) from the White House Thursday afternoon. Trump [declared a national emergency](http://time.com/4896141/president-trump-opioid-national-emergency/) over the opioid epidemic in August. National emergencies are typically declared for short-term crises, such as a natural disaster, and can help unlock more support and resources. A public health emergency declaration would not come with specific funding, but officials say it could allow expanded access to medical services in rural areas, according to the Associated Press. Trump has said an emergency designation will give his administration the “power to do things that you can’t do right now.” Opioid-related deaths among Americans has [nearly doubled since 2009,](http://time.com/4920021/u-s-opioid-deaths-nearly-doubled-since-2009/) and the number of admissions to intensive care units related to opioid use has gone up by 34%, according to a recent [study in the _Annals of the American Thoracic Society._](http://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201701-022OC) _Watch Trump deliver his remarks at 2 p.m. E.T._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4998663/donald-trump-on-opioid-crisis-watch-live/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4998663/donald-trump-on-opioid-crisis-watch-live/"},"headline":"Watch Live: President Trump to Declare the Opioid Crisis a Public Health Emergency","datePublished":"2017-10-26T15:46:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T18:00:47.832Z","description":"Watch his remarks here live at 2 p.m. E.T.","url":"https://time.com/4998663/donald-trump-on-opioid-crisis-watch-live/","keywords":["White House","opioids","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4125a85676e80eb3/6988e3848fd2ee591b35965e/gettyimages-866529540.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Marie Segarra","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4125a85676e80eb3/6988e3848fd2ee591b35965e/gettyimages-866529540.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Donald Trump departs for Texas to attend a briefing on hurricane relief efforts, in Washington, DC.","caption":"President Donald Trump departs for Texas to attend a briefing on hurricane relief efforts, in Washington, DC.","creditText":"Photo by Bill O'Leary—The Washington Post/Getty","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4998663/donald-trump-on-opioid-crisis-watch-live/","name":"Watch Live: President Trump to Declare the Opioid Crisis a Public Health Emergency"}}]}] ```