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## Video: Donald Trump Declares Opioid Crisis a Public Health Emergency

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_Published 2017-10-26. In an address at the White House, President Trump directed the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the national opioid crisis a public health emergency._


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## Transcript

Effective today, my administration, is officially declaring the opioid crisis a national public health emergency under federal law. And why I am directing all executive agencies to use every appropriate emergency authority to fight the opioid crisis. I learnt myself I had a brother Fred, great guy, best looking guy, best personality, much better than mine. [ LAUGH ] But he had a problem, he had a problem with alcohol, and he would tell me, don't drink. Don't drink. He was substantially older and I listened to him and I respect it, but he would constantly tell me, don't drink. He'd also add, don't smoke.

But he would say it over and over and over again. And to this day I've never had a drink. And I have no longing for it. I have no interest in it. To this day I've never had a cigarette. Don't worry those are only two of my good things. I don't want to tell you about the bad things. [ LAUGH ] There's plenty of bad things, too. But he really helped me, I had somebody that guided me. And he had a very, very, very tough life because of alcohol, believe me. Very very, tough tough life. He was a strong guy, but it was a tough, tough thing that he was going through, but I learned because of Fred, I learned And that's what I think is so important.

This was an idea that I had where if we can teach young people not to take drugs, just not to take them, when I see friends of mine that are having difficulty with not having that drink at dinner, where it's literally almost impossible for them to stop I say to myself, I can't even understand it. Why would that be difficult? But we understand why it is difficult. The fact is, if we can teach young people and people generally not to start, it's really, really easy not to take them. And I think that's going to end up being a most important thing.

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