WASHINGTON — Almost a year after then-Gov. Chris Christie’s opioid commission disbanded with an admonition to Congress to fund efforts to tackle the crisis, President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed sweeping legislation designed to do just that. Christie, the chairman of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, was in the audience in the White House East Room as Trump signed the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act into law. “Together we are going to end the scourge of drug addiction in America,” said Trump, who last October declared the opioid crisis a “public health emergency” under the Public Health Services Act, though did not declare a more far-reaching “national emergency” as the Christie commission recommended. Christie panel issues final report on opioids Christie’s commission went out of business Nov. 1, 2017 after offering 65 recommendations on how to address the opioid crisis. Some of them were in the bill signed by Trump, which combined several separate pieces of legislation into one all-encompassing measure. The measure strengthens efforts to stop the flow of illegal narcot
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