UB medical school professor comments on Trump's declaration about the opioid epidemic

Articles in TIME Magazine and Salon about President Trump’s declaration that the opioid crisis is a public health emergency quote Richard Blondell, professor and vice chair for addiction medicine in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, who said Trump said a lot of the right things in his speech although it was light on specifics. “The proof will be in the pudding,” he said. Blondell also was interviewed about the declaration on WBEN-AM.

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http://time.com/4998975/opioid-crisis-donald-trump-public-health-emergency/

https://www.salon.com/2017/10/26/trumps-opioid-declaration-doesnt-include-a-request-for-more-funding/