Presidential Document2022-18933
Overdose Awareness Week, 2022
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August 31, 2022
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August 26, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 168 (Wednesday, August 31, 2022)]
[Presidential Documents]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-18933]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 168 / Wednesday, August 31, 2022 /
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10431 of August 26, 2022
Overdose Awareness Week, 2022
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
The overdose epidemic has taken a heartbreaking toll on
our Nation, claiming the lives of far too many
Americans and devastating families and communities
across the country. During Overdose Awareness Week, we
renew our commitment to taking bold action to prevent
overdoses and related deaths. We continue our efforts
to enhance prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and
recovery support services for individuals with
substance use disorder and addiction. We affirm our
duty to stop the flow of illicit drugs from reaching
our communities.
As the overdose epidemic has evolved, synthetic opioids
--particularly illicitly manufactured fentanyl--now
drive the majority of overdose deaths. In 2021, more
than 100,000 people died from an overdose, an
approximate 15 percent increase from the previous year.
Every loss is a painful reminder that, now more than
ever, we must address our Nation's overdose epidemic.
As I said during my State of the Union Address, beating
the opioid overdose epidemic is an urgent priority for
the Nation and a key pillar of my Administration's
Unity Agenda. That is why the American Rescue Plan
provided nearly $4 billion to strengthen our Nation's
mental health and substance use care infrastructure.
The Department of Justice has seized record amounts of
illicit drugs and provided $94 million to adult re-
entry and recidivism reduction programs, including
almost $30 million for substance use disorder
treatment. The Department of Health and Human Services
released a comprehensive Overdose Prevention Strategy,
increasing access to services for affected individuals
and families. The White House Office of National Drug
Control Policy released its first National Drug Control
Strategy, focusing on untreated addiction and drug
trafficking, two critical drivers of the overdose
epidemic. We are making significant strides in ending
the stigmatization surrounding addiction so people can
access the help they need.
We are also changing how we help people with substance
use disorder in a variety of ways. We are working to
expand access to high-impact harm reduction
interventions like naloxone, the opioid overdose
reversal medication, and to remove barriers to
effective treatment. We are addressing the underlying
factors that lead to substance use disorder and
addiction. We are targeting drug trafficking
organizations by disrupting the operating capital they
need to sustain their criminal enterprises.
These are important steps, but we know more work lies
ahead. That is why my budget calls for an historic
investment of $42.5 billion for National Drug Control
Program Agencies to support the National Drug Control
Strategy, including $24.3 billion to support the
expansion of evidence-based prevention, treatment, harm
reduction, and recovery support services. This request
also includes increasing funding to reduce illicit drug
supplies and improve the health and safety of our
communities.
Overdose Awareness Week is a time to remember those
tragically lost to overdose and the pain of the
families who are left behind. But it is also an
opportunity to recommit ourselves to working together
to build safe, healthy, and resilient communities. By
adopting evidence-based approaches
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to reducing overdose risks and lowering barriers to
treatment and support, we can save more American lives.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim August 28
through September 3, 2022, as Overdose Awareness Week.
I call upon citizens, Government agencies, civil
society organizations, healthcare providers, and
research institutions to raise awareness of substance
use disorder to combat stigmatization, to promote
treatment and celebrate recovery, and to strengthen our
collective efforts to prevent overdose deaths. August
31st also marks Overdose Awareness Day, on which we
honor and remember those who have lost their lives to
the drug overdose epidemic.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-sixth day of August, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
seventh.
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