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White House Opioid Commission to Trump: "Declare a National Emergency" on Drug Overdoses Washington Post by Christopher Ingraham — The President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis issued a preliminary report on Monday stating that its "first and most urgent recommendation" is for the president to "declare a national emergency under either the Public Health Service Act or the Stafford Act." In addition, the commission's first report includes a number of recommendations that public health experts and drug policy reformers have been advocating for years, including expanding capacity for drug treatment under Medicaid.