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The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) has announced the first meeting of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis. An Executive Order signed by President Trump on March 29, 2017 chartered the Commission to “obtain advice and recommendations for the President regarding drug issues.” Acting solely as an “advisory body,” the President’s Commission must submit their final conclusions by October 1, 2017.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was selected by Trump to lead the Commission. Christie’s efforts to eradicate the opioid epidemic in New Jersey and across the United States, including a bill that placed the fiscal responsibility of addiction treatment on health insurance companies and limited the number of painkillers a doctor could prescribe, have been applauded by both sides of the aisle. Joining Christie on the Commission will be Governors Charlie Baker (R-Massachusetts) and Roy Cooper (D-North Carolina), former Congressman and recovering addict Patrick Kennedy, and Harvard Medical School researcher Bertha Madras.
Though Chris Christie is on the record as not being a fan of full marijuana legalization, he…
