Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief

Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief
Assignment Template for Part 1 and Part 2
Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid
Use this Agenda Comparison Grid to document information about the population health/healthcare issue your selected
and the presidential agendas. By completing this grid, you will develop a more in depth understanding of your selected
issue and how you might position it politically based on the presidential agendas.
You will use the information in the Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid to complete the remaining Part 2 and Part 3 of your
Assignment.
Identify the Population
Health concern you selected.
Overuse of Opioid in the population of America
Describe the Population
Health concern you selected
and the factors that
contribute to it.
Use of Opioid in America has been occurring since a long time. Around 8 to 12% people have
developed opioid use disorder. It has been reported that recently there has been an upturn in
the overdose of opioid by 30% from July 2016 through September 2017.
Administration (President
Name)
(Current President)
Donald J. Trump
(Previous President)
Barack Obama (2014 - 2017)
(Previous President)
Barack Obama (2009 - 2013)
Describe the administrative
agenda focus related to this
issue for the current and two
previous presidents.
The mortality rate was around
64000 in America due to drug
overdose in the year 2016.
Opioid overdose accounted for
around 42000 of these deaths
which was more than any other
The influence of the
Administration’s balanced
approach in the Strategy was
rising by the year 2016 which
continued to be felt across the
Nation as Federal, state, local
In the year 2010 President
Obama initiated a National Drug
Control strategy which reflected
on a wide-ranging approach that
focuses on decreasing the usage
of drugs and its consequences.
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year. On October 2017 President
Trump professed the opioid
catastrophe as a population’s
health crisis. President Trump’s
approach to halt opioid
exploitation started on 2018
which is defying the
organizations working behind
the opioid crisis. There are three
parts behind the initiative of
stopping the opioid abuse (The
White House, 2019).
and tribal officials and
community stakeholders
working collectively to meet the
encounters of drug abuse and its
significances (The White House,
2019).
Endorsing equilibrium between
deterrence, management, and
law implementation, the Strategy
calls for a 15% decrease in the
usage of drug in the young
people over 5 years and alike
decrease in excessive drug use
and drug-related concerns such
as deaths due to drug usage and
drugged driving (The White
House, 2019).
Identify the allocations of
financial and other resources
that the current and two
previous presidents dedicated
to this issue.
The Trump budget created a
countrywide Medicare task
necessity that would save the
government a likely $245 billion
— cuts that in general is
received from the American
people who are getting exposure
from the program.
President Obama in the fiscal
year 2017 requested for $1.1
billion to be addressed for the
opioid epidemic, with a focus on
enhancing the treatment for
opioid overuse disorder.
More $90 million was
contributed to the new resources
in the fiscal year 2017 budget
that would enable the
Department of Justice (DOJ) and
the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) to
enhance prescription drug
overdose deterrence strategies,
enhance the accessibility of
medicine assisted cure programs,
develop rights for the overdose-
reversal drug like naloxone.
In the year 2009, the
Administration has committed
more than $370 million to the
area of demand reduction and to
Drug Free Communities Support
Program, which afford financial
support to society coalitions that
systematize to avoid youth
opioid and other substance use.
Explain how each of the
presidential administrations
approached the issue.
Part one is responsible in
decreasing the claim and illegal
prescription, and also promotes
educating American people
The Administration continued to
promote the cooperation
amongst drug control
organization to refer the
The National Drug Control
strategies had two strategies
under their sleeves. First strategy
was to restrict the illegal drug
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