BALTIMORE, MD – Today, Regina LaBelle, Acting Director of National Drug Control Policy joined Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and other officials for the announcement of the new HHS Overdose Prevention Strategy, which focuses on expanding primary prevention, harm reduction, evidence-based treatment, and recovery support services for all Americans. The HHS Overdose…
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Remarks by President Biden at the Summit for Democracy Virtual Plenary on Democracy Delivering on Global Challenges
South Court AuditoriumEisenhower Executive Office Building 11:42 A.M. EDT PRESIDENT BIDEN: Hello, everyone. Let me start by apologizing for the slight cold I have. That’s the only thing that’s happening to me these days. Let me start by thanking everyone for participating in the second Summit of Democracies — for Democracy, I should say. But more importantly,…
ICYMI: Dr. Gupta Op-Ed on Transforming Management of Opioid Use Disorder with Universal Treatment
Dr. Gupta: “MOUD is one of the most effective interventions available to address the overdose crisis. Increasing access to MOUD could help establish the foundation of an addiction-treatment infrastructure.” NEJM: Transforming Management of Opioid Use Disorder with Universal Treatment [Rahul Gupta, MD, MPH, MBA, Rachel L. Levine, MD, Javier A. Cepeda, PhD, MPH, and David…
FACT SHEET: Biden Administration Announces Operational Plan for COVID-19 Vaccinations for Children Under 5
Driven by President Biden’s comprehensive COVID-19 strategy, including a historic vaccination program that has gotten 220 million Americans fully vaccinated, over 100 million people a booster shot, and made vaccines free, widely available and convenient—daily COVID-19 deaths are down 90 percent since he took office. COVID-19 vaccines remain the single-most important tool that we have…
What They Are Saying: Union Leaders, Businesses, Congressional Leaders, Environmental Organizations, Praise Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Catalyzing America’s Clean Energy Industries and Jobs through Federal Sustainability
Executive Order Demonstrates How the United States Will Leverage Its Scale and Procurement Power to Lead by Example in Tackling the Climate Crisis Leaders representing labor organizations, the business community and environmental nonprofits applauded President Biden’s Executive Order on Catalyzing America’s Clean Energy Industries and Jobs through Federal Sustainability and accompanying Federal Sustainability Plan. The…
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy, Unleashing America’s Cyber Talent
Read the full strategy here Today, the Biden-Harris Administration unveiled the National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy (NCWES), a first-of-its-kind comprehensive approach aimed at addressing both immediate and long-term cyber workforce needs. Filling the hundreds of thousands of cyber job vacancies across our nation is a national security imperative and the Administration is making generational…
Joint statement to Leaders from the United States’ Director of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy and Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry
Dear President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau: Science, technology, and innovation (ST&I) are fundamental to economic growth and competitiveness in global markets, as well as the future prosperity and security of the United States of America (U.S.) and Canada. That is why we met most recently on November 3, 2021, to discuss U.S.-Canada shared priorities…
Statement from Acting Director Regina LaBelle on Today’s CDC Overdose Death Data
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, Regina LaBelle, Acting Director of National Drug Control Policy, issued the following statement regarding the CDC’s release of provisional drug overdose death data, which show a record number of 96,801 predicted overdose deaths in the 12-month period ending in February 2021: “I grieve with the families who have lost loved ones to…
President Biden Announces Key Nominees
WASHINGTON – Today, President Biden announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to serve as key leaders in his administration: Richard Lee Buangan, Nominee for Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Mongolia Rachna Sachdeva Korhonen, Nominee for Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Mali Rebecca Haffajee, Nominee for Assistant Secretary for Planning and…
Joint Statement from India and the United States
1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed United States President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., to India today, reaffirming the close and enduring partnership between India and the United States. The leaders expressed their appreciation for the substantial progress underway to implement the ground breaking achievements of Prime Minister Modi’s historic, June 2023, visit to Washington.…