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Trump administration’s new ‘treatment-first’ addiction toolkit emphasizes faith, abstinence
The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled a new framework for helping Americans facing the often-intertwined circumstances of addiction and homelessness.
In a new toolkit, the White House unveiled a “treatment first” model that boosts faith-based interventions while rejecting harm reduction principles and the “housing first” strategy that characterized the Biden administration’s approach. While the new strategy favors medicalized approaches to treating addiction, it cites abstinence as the ultimate goal as opposed to also celebrating decreased drug use and related harms.
The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled a new framework for helping Americans facing the often-intertwined circumstances of addiction and homelessness.
In a new toolkit, the White House unveiled a “treatment first” model that boosts faith-based interventions while rejecting harm reduction principles and the “housing first” strategy that characterized the Biden administration’s approach. While the new strategy favors medicalized approaches to treating addiction, it cites abstinence as the ultimate goal as opposed to also celebrating decreased drug use and related harms.