Published August 10, 2017 3:13pm EDT | Updated August 10, 2017 5:05pm EDT

Trump Says White House Drawing Up Documents To Declare Opioid Abuse Emergency

President Donald Trump on Thursday said the White House would declare the opioid crisis to be a national emergency, something he didn't do during a discussion on the topic he held earlier this week. "We're going to draw it up and we're going to make it a national emergency," Trump told reporters from his golf resort in Bedminster, N.J., before comparing it to LSD during his youth. "But this is a national emergency and we are drawing documents now to so attest."