Over the past two years, President Trump has promoted bold reforms designed to address the opioid crisis. Congress, in a rare bipartisan effort, wholeheartedly supported Trump’s significant reforms, but these initiatives are being undermined by the failures of federal housing policy.

In October 2018, the president signed landmark legislation that attacked the opioid crisis by expanding recovery centers, improving coordination to curb illicit drug shipments, lifting treatment restrictions, fast-tracking new research, and expanding Medicare coverage for opioid treatment.