RFK Jr. Continues Opioid Crisis PHE Into Its Eighth Year

By Dorothy Mills-Gregg / March 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently renewed the department’s longest ongoing public health emergency (PHE) first declared under the first Trump administration: the opioid abuse crisis.


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