Embedded in the Trump administration’s Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again — amid a series of steep cuts to “non-Defense” programs — are two proposals for increased funding to fight the opioid epidemic.

The first increase falls under the budget for the Department of Health and Human Services, an agency facing a proposed 17.9 percent funding decrease, one of the sharpest overall. Despite cuts to “duplicative” or “limited impact” programs in HHS, the blueprint specifically allocates a half a billion dollar funding increase to expand opioid misuse prevention efforts and increase access to treatment and recovery services.

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