India, March 19 -- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has renewed the public health emergency declaration addressing the nation's opioid crisis.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that the public health emergency declaration has been extended to allow sustained federal coordination efforts and preserve key flexibility that enable HHS to continue leveraging expanded authorities to conduct certain activities in response to the opioid overdose crisis.
"Although overdose deaths are starting to decline, opioid-involved overdoses remain the leading cause of drug-related fatalities," Kennedy said. "This Administration is going to treat this urgent crisis in American health as the national security emergency that it i...