President Obama will announce Wednesday policy reforms to curb the devastation of heroin and painkiller abuse nationwide. A White House official tells the Associated Press that the plans include opening up access to drug treatment programs and improving medical staff training. Mr. Obama will outline plans while on a day trip to Charleston, W. Va., the state with the highest rate of overdose deaths in the country, according to a report by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. West Virginia has lost more than twice the national average to overdose,...
↧