Addiction recovery advocates are wary that President Donald Trump’s plan for addressing the substance abuse epidemic in the United States won’t sufficiently help the problem without action from Congress and a boost in funding for addiction treatment nationwide.
Trump signed an executive order on Thursday creating the Great American Recovery Initiative, an intergovernmental task force aimed at addressing demand-side factors fueling America’s drug and alcohol epidemic, but the move was met with a degree of skepticism from the advocacy community.
As of 2024, 48.5 million people over age 12 suffered from some sort of substance abuse disorder, nearly 17% of the total U.S. population.
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More than 28 million people reported battling drug use disorder, with 1 in 6 of them saying they also struggle with alcohol
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