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Right here on cbs3. Correspondent moalla lenghi explains. Reporter President Trump is expected to declare a Public Health emergency at the white house. Were going to be doing a very, very important meeting sometime in the very short very near future on opioids. Reporter the administrations are goal is to reduce addiction to pain medication to drugs like heroin and fentanyl. Epidemic with millions of americans already affected prevention is not enough. We must also help those suffering from addiction by expanding access to life saving treatment. Reporter todays declaration gives states the ability to shift funds away from other medical issues such as hiv diabetes and maternal care to provide more opioid treatment. The president s action stopped short of declaring a National Emergency to deal with the crisis something he promised several times to do as recently as last week. Its a very important step and to get to that step a lot of work has to be done and its time consuming. Were going

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