Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking

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.
The ongoing opioid crisis in the United States in patients experiencing pain
Describe the Population
Health concern you selected
and the factors that
contribute to it.
There are certain individuals who experience pain because of different medical conditions. It has been researched
that consumption of opioid-containing medications can reduce the prevalence of pain in individuals. Hence,
pharmaceutical companies have been manufacturing medicines containing opioid to reduce the incidence and
intensity of pain in patients (Corrigan & Nieweglowski, 2018). It is for this reason that overdoses of opioid have
been observed in the population for which detrimental health effects have been reported. Individuals have started to
feel addicted to opioid and find it difficult to come out of the addiction.
Administration (President
Name)
Donald Trump Barack Obama George Bush
Describe the administrative
agenda focus related to this
issue for the current and tw0
previous presidents.
In October 2017, President Trump
proclaimed the crisis of opioid a
general wellbeing crisis. From that
point onward, the Trump
Administration has applied an all-of-
Government way to deal with the
epidemic, taking an exceptional scope
of activities that mirror the President's
In October 2015, President Obama
reported in West Virginia a portion
of the government, state, nearby, and
private division endeavors against
doctor prescribed medication abuse
of opioid before a group of
individuals of human health services
experts and individuals influenced
President Bush had an agenda of
making available other medications
as pain-killers because of adverse
health effects of opioid during
those times.
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responsibility to leaving the
emergency (Achenbach et al., 2017).
by the epidemic caused by opioid.
Identify the allocations of
financial and other resources
that the current and two
previous presidents dedicated
to this issue.
In the Budget of President Trump
throughout the following two years,
$13 billion is to be channeled in
endeavors to battle the opioid
epidemic. Moreover, the
administration intends to affirm $6
billion throughout the following two
years to finance programs planned for
fighting utilization of opioid.
However, in spite of big funds being
allocated, it is not clear as to how
much did the firms really receive at
the end.
The President's FY 2017 Budget
adopted a two dimensional strategy
to address this epidemic (Williams
& Bisaga, 2016). It incorporates $1
billion in new compulsory
subsidizing more than two years to
grow access to treatment for
physician endorsed sedate
maltreatment and heroin use.
The President allocated $400
billion worth fund for prescribing
drug bill to Medicare enrolled
citizens (Khawam, 2018).
Explain how each of the
presidential administrations
approached the issue.
President Trump's Initiative to Stop
Opioid Abuse, disclosed in 2018, is
standing up to the main impetuses
behind the narcotic emergency
(Humphreys, Caulkins & Felbab-
Brown, 2018). One of the points is to
instruct Americans about the risks of
opioid misuse by diminishing the
stock of illegal medications by taking
action against the global and local
medication supply chains.
Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention
Plan was introduced by President
Barack Obama to educate the
individuals about the dangerous
side-effects which are likely to be
experienced by administering opioid
drugs and also monitoring the
overall usage of the drugs for the
treatment.
President Bush made sure to
implement these actions with the
help of collaboration from other
interprofessionals in the country
such that the health outcome of the
patients is not compromised.
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