Drug Trafficking, Treatment Get Focus in Biden Opioid Strategy

Government agencies will prioritize addiction treatment and going after drug traffickers under the White House’s 2022 drug control plan, released Thursday amid some of the nation’s highest overdose death numbers yet reported.

Harm reduction for those struggling with addiction will get its first-ever nod in this year’s annual National Drug Control Strategy, the administration said in a fact sheet outlining the plan.

The strategy also emphasizes “a targeted response” against criminal organizations and drug traffickers while calling for collaboration with “international partners to disrupt the supply chain of illicit substances and the precursor chemicals used to produce them,” according to ...