Trump Administration Announces Nearly $2 Billion in New Funding to Combat Opioid Crisis

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar (R) gives brief remarks on the Administration's actions to combat the opioid crisis and announced $1.8B in grants to states and cities to assist in their responses to this crisis during an event at the White House on Sept. 4, 2019. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

The Trump administration is awarding nearly $2 billion in new funding to states and local governments to help fight the opioid crisis.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alexander Azar says the grants come from money that President Donald Trump secured from Congress last year. Trump says “nothing is more important than defeating the opioid and addiction crisis.”