Upcoming Biden Opioid Plan Will Target Treatment, Trafficking

The White House is planning to roll out its drug control strategy in the next several months with a focus targeting opioid addiction treatment and the trafficking of illegal substances, the Biden administration’s top drug policy official said in a Tuesday interview.

Drug prevention programs based on research as well as policies that reduce the harmful consequences of drug use will be front and center in the Biden administration’s upcoming National Drug Control Strategy, said Rahul Gupta, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

“If it remains easier to get illicit drugs in America than treatment, we’ll never ...