Etats-Unis : Le budget de Trump tuerait effectivement l’office de contrôle des drogues

L’Office national de contrôle des drogues, le principal organisme en charge de combattre la crise des opioïdes, est sur le point de voir son budget réduit de 95%. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

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By Dan Diamond

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2018 budget would cut about 95 percent of funding for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, effectively ending its mission as the lead agency in charge of combating the opioid crisis and other drug epidemics, according to an internal office email and two sources who spoke with POLITICO.

The office, which received $388 million in federal funding in fiscal 2017, would only receive $24 million in fiscal 2018, according to the budget proposal from the White House. The agency’s high-intensity drug trafficking program, which received $254 million in federal funding in 2017, and its drug-free communities support program, which received $100 million, would be completely zeroed out under Trump’s proposal.

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