The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced recently that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. renewed the public health emergency declaration addressing our nation’s opioid crisis, which will allow sustained federal coordination efforts and preserve key flexibilities that enable HHS to continue leveraging expanded authorities to conduct certain activities in response to the opioid overdose crisis.
The public health emergency, first declared under President Trump’s in 2017, was set to expire on March 21, 2025. This renewal extends the emergency for 90 days. This declaration allows the Department to facilitate voluntary information collections, expedite demonstration projects related to substance use disorder treatment, and expedite support for research on opioid use disorder treatments.
Read the full release, here.
