President Trump has signed a wide-ranging bill into law aimed at reducing addiction and deaths from opioids, an issue his administration has called a public health emergency.

“Together we are going to end the scourge of drug addiction in America,” Trump said ahead of the signing. “We are going to end it, or we are going to make an extremely big dent in this terrible, terrible problem.”

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