President Donald Trump took executive action on Thursday to create the White House Great American Recovery Initiative in order to better coordinate the country’s national response to addiction.
“Many of those with me today have personally known the heartache of a loved one taken by drug or alcohol addiction,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I do, just like millions of American families.”
The president’s elder brother, Fred Trump Jr,. died of a heart attack in 1981 at the age of 42 after years of alcoholism that derailed his career as a pilot.
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“Every year, we lose an estimated 300,000 people to drug and alcohol abuse, and the real number is probably much, much higher than
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