EXCLUSIVE — Familial experience with addiction among policymakers at the highest levels of the Trump administration is shaping new federal policies on drug and alcohol recovery.

Kathryn Burgum, co-chairwoman of the Great American Recovery initiative and wife of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, told the Washington Examiner in an exclusive interview that a new overhaul of federal recovery programs would not have been possible but for the multiple individuals within the Cabinet who have either struggled with addiction or had family members with substance abuse problems.

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