2025 Politics & Addiction

2025 Political Candidates and Addiction Resources Linktree Overview

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Recommended Addiction News Articles

Families and Overdose in the 2024 Presidential Election

Run for Recovery, a Political Bootcamp for People in Recovery, by the Recovery Advocacy Project

Statements on Overdose Statistics and Fentanyl

Imposition of Tariffs

IOAD 2024 White House Proclamations

International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) 2024

Photos & Videos from White House Drug Epidemic Memorial Wall, 8/28/24

Drug Epidemic Memorial Wall Slideshow to Play at White House 8/28/24

President Donald Trump

Former President Joe Biden

Former Vice President Kamala Harris

Tim Walz - Vice President Nominee for Kamala Harris

J.D. Vance - Vice President Nominee for Donald Trump

Derek Maltz, Head of DEA Appointed by President Trump

Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, Surgeon General Appointed by President Donald Trump

Dr. Marty Makary, FDA Head Appointed by President Donald Trump

Dr. Dave Weldon, CDC Director Appointed by President Donald Trump

Tom Homan, Drug Czar Appointed by President Donald Trump

Sam Chapman - Applicant for Director of ONDCP

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu

Sanford Bishop - Congressman, Georgia

Sherrod Brown - United States Senate, Ohio

Ryan Hampton (Mobilize Recovery) - Nevada State Assembly

#AskAboutOverdose Campaign to Address Overdose in the September 10 Debate

#AskHarrisTrump Campaign to Address Overdose in the September 10 Debate

Overdose Community Voting and Comments

#DoSomething

2024 Election Voting Resources for the Addiction and Recovery Community

Fort Moore

See Why You Should Vote Harris-Walz If You Are an Addiction/Recovery Advocate

Tim Walz Legalizes Recreational Marijuana in Minnesota Starting in August, Reducing Fentanyl and Xylazine Contamination Risk

The Walz Flanagan Administration Will Issue over $25 Million This Year to Address the Ongoing Crisis

Tim Walz Is Making It Easier to Access Naloxone

Tim Walz on Restoring Voting Rights to Minnesotans Who Have Been Incarcerated in the Past

The 47 Million People in the Addiction and Recovery Community Can Make a Huge Difference in the Election

Megan Barry - U.S. House of Representatives - TN District 7

Marsha Blackburn - U.S. Senate

Gloria Johnson - U.S. Senate

Dr. Jane George - US House of Representatives, TN District 2

Linsey Davis - ABC News Moderator

David Muir - ABC News Moderator

9/10/24 Presidential Debate - Articles about Overdose DRAFT

DNC Platform

RNC Platform

DNC Speakers - Gloria Johnson (Tennessee Three)

DNC Speakers - Murphy

RNC Speakers - Anne Elizabeth Fundner

2024 National Fentanyl Awareness Day in NYC at Times Square, 8/21/24

Trail of Truth at DNC Convention

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)

2021-2024 Biden/Harris Administration Accomplishments

The White House Challenge to Save Lives from Overdose, October 8, 2024

2017-2021 Trump/Pence Administration Efforts

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) General

Family Summits (DEA)

Faces of Fentanyl Memorial Wall (DEA) - It was a vision of Anne Milgram with the DEA's Dept of Human Afffairs and began 5/5/22

Breaches to the Border Wall

Mexican Cartels

Improved Border Security - Fentanyl Seizures

American Disabilities Act (DOJ) - Derek Scott?

Expungement (DOJ)

2024 Addiction Statistics

Guns vs Overdose Deaths

Fentanyl Overdose and Voting Eligibility Statistics

Fentanyl Statistics DRAFT

Fentanyl statistics DRAFT

Decreased State 2023 Overdose Rates

Decreased National 2023 Overdose Rate

FEND Off Fentanyl Act (2023-2024)

END Fentanyl Act (March 18, 2024)

Recovery Enhancement for Addiction Treatment Act (TREAT) (2022)

Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment (MAT) Act (Signed into Law 2022)

Lankford Sinema Bill, voted (2024), Fentanyl Scanners

Improving Medicaid Programs’ Response to Overdose Victims and Enhancing (IMPROVE) Addiction Care Act, reintroduced by Senators Blackburn and Manchin, U.S. Reps Trone, to equip providers with Medicare patients' overdose history (Introduced July 25, 2023)

The Fentanyl Crisis in America: Inaction Is No Longer an Option, 03/01/2023

Fitzpatrick, Kuster, Trone Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Prevent Fatal Overdoses, Support Opioid Victims

Comprehensive Addiction Resources Emergency Act (Introduced 2024)

Contraband Awareness Technology Catches Harmful (CATCH) Fentanyl Act, Pilot Program to Inspect Vehicles and Cargo at Points of Entry, Introduced 3/22/2024

Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act (HALT Fentanyl Act) (Passed House 05/25/2023)

Manchin Bill to Prevent Fatal Overdoses, Support Opioid Victims

Progress of Four Programs from the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act

CARA (Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act) (2016)

Summary Of S.524 - 114th Congress (2015-2016): CARA Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act Of 2016

Voter Rights Restoration for Felons - States

2024 Restrictive Policies in Tennessee

Voting in the 2024 Election

Voter Rights Restoration for Felons - Federal