Walden University NURS 6050 Module 1: Opioid Crisis Comparison Grid

This assignment, a comparative analysis of presidential agendas concerning the opioid crisis, examines the issue from multiple perspectives. It begins with an overview of the opioid crisis in America, including the factors contributing to it, and then delves into the administrative focus of the current and two previous presidents (Trump and Obama administrations). The assignment details the strategies, resource allocations, and approaches of each administration to address the crisis, including the National Drug Control Strategy and specific initiatives. Furthermore, the assignment analyzes which administrative agencies would be responsible for addressing the healthcare issue, how the issue gets and stays on the agenda, and who would be the entrepreneur/champion/sponsor for each administration. This assignment provides a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of the opioid crisis and the policy responses to it.

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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Agenda Comparison
Grid Template

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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about the risks of opioid abuse.
Part 2 is responsible for cutting
down of the resource of illegal
drugs by breaking and stopping
the intercontinental and local
drug transportation network that
overwhelm America’s societies.
Part 3 is accountable for helping
and supporting those people who
are fighting their obsession with
the help of evidence-based cure
and healing through sustenance
amenities (The White House,
2019).
widespread of opioid and the
impending danger of increased
cocaine availability. The
administration aims to utilize
science to drive policies that
prevents and treats stress and
clarify the confusion and stigma
that make obstacles to recovery
for millions of Americans (The
White House, 2019).
consumption in America. Second
strategy was to improve the
health and safety of the
American people by decreasing
the significances of drug misuse
(The White House, 2019).
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Part 2: Agenda Comparison Grid Analysis
Using the information you recorded in Part 1: Agenda Comparison Grid, complete the following to document information about the population
health/healthcare issue your selected
Administration (President
Name)
(Current President) (Previous President) (Previous President)
Which administrative agency
would most likely be
responsible for helping you
address the healthcare issue
you selected?
How do you think your selected
healthcare issue might get on
the agenda for the current and
two previous presidents? How
does it stay there?
Who would you choose to be
the entrepreneur/
champion/sponsor of the
healthcare issue you selected
for the current and two
previous presidents?
Note: Part 3: of the Module 1: Assignment: Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief is a 1-page Fact Sheet or Talking
Points Brief the you will create in a separate document.
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