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Hey everyone, it's Jonathan Kapart and welcome to K-Up.

President Trump has declared the opioid crisis a national public health emergency.

He spoke about the damage it's causing the country and families, but he left one thing out.

The President was shining a spotlight on this issue, but without any new funds, which usually are focused for such an issue,

we worry that it is all bark and no bite.

Dr. Susan Blumenthal, a retired rear admiral in the United States Public Health Service

and a former Deputy Surgeon General talks about the fear that money from other public health

emergencies like HIV and AIDS will be used to fulfill the president's

wishes and how we got to this point in the first place right now. Dr. Susan Blumenthal, thank you very much for being on the podcast.

It's my pleasure to be here, Jonathan.

On October 26th, at an event at the White House President Trump declared the opioid crisis quote

a national public health emergency under federal law, give me your impressions of what the president had to say.

And then second, define for those of us who don't have an ear for federal

federal talk what a quote national public health emergency really is.

So the president declared really is?

So the president declared the opioid epidemic in America to be a national public health emergency.

That is a federal statute, a federal law. It's's been used I think there are 28 currently in

effect and it's been used for disasters for Ebola for Zika for a number of other

public health issues.

The purpose of it is to really give flexibility in terms of legal statutes, to mobilize the federal agencies, to bring personnel from the

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