Obama proposes $1.1 billion to expand treatment for growing hard drug downside

U.S. President Barack Obama can push for $1.1 billion in new funding to expand treatment for the aggressive range of individuals enthusiastic about hard drug and prescription pain killers, the White House aforesaid on Tuesday.

Racing to handle a pandemic that has become a problem within the 2016 presidential election campaign, Obama can raise the U.S. Congress for an enormous increase in funding, most of which might be wont to facilitate hard-hit states and rural areas expand treatment.

In 2014, a record range of american citizens died from drug overdoses, with the best rates seen in American state, New Mexico, New Hampshire, American state and Ohio.

"My home state of American state has felt the value quite virtually the other, and in person, i do know the families WHO have suffered deeply from loss and area unit continued to struggle," Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia

Mathews Burwell told reporters on a telephone call.

There area unit two.2 million Americans WHO want treatment for opioid abuse, however solely concerning one million individuals area unit receiving facilitate, Burwell aforesaid.

She aforesaid she has detected from several disturbed members of Congress longing for ways in which to stem drug overdoses in their districts and states, and expects to check nonpartisan  support for the funding proposal, which is able to be a part of Obama's budget request for financial  2017.

The funding, adjoin 2 years, would quadruple the present Department of Health and Human Services budget of $127 million allotted to the matter this year - that is up from solely $34 million in financial  2015.