Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Steve Witkoff, who is here, had an extraordinary son, Andrew, who was a superstar boy, a straight-A student, an athlete, and a wonderful leader, and lost that son to addiction.

President Trump has talked about his own family's struggle with addiction.

All of us are touched.

If it touches these people, it can hurt every American.

And President Trump has often talked about, with compassion, about the families who lose children to this disease.

100,000 children a year until recently.

Now it's about 76,000.

Those families are devastated forever.

And the cost to our country, not only in dollars, but in just the malaise and the despair that it imposes is incalculable.

We are going to listen to states, localities, frontline providers, and tribal nations.

We will partner with communities and faith-based organizations.

We will work with employers, clinicians, and recovery leaders who know what works on the ground.

President Trump has already acted.

decisively securing the border against deadly drugs, signing the Halt Fentanyl Act, strengthening treatment programs, expanding access to Naloxone, medication-assisted treatments, and investing billions in prevention and recovery.

This executive order builds on that record and accelerates it.

Recovery is not a side issue, it's an economic issue.

a workforce issue, a family issue, a national security issue.

When Americans recover, communities grow stronger.

When families heal, children thrive.

And when we confront addiction with courage instead of complacency, we reclaim the promise of our country.