“Overall, an increase of $775 million for the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security for drug war efforts. The Trump budget does include $900 million in increased funding for the Department of Health and Human Services to address the opioid epidemic, and it claims it would allocate a total of $13 billion to ‘combat the opioid epidemic,’ but that figure mixes treatment, prevention and war on drugs funding.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/feb/14/trumps_drug_budget_doubles_down
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