Agenda Comparison Grid and Fact Sheet or Talking Points Brief Assignment Template for Part 1 and Part 2WK2AssgnBlangoN.doc

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. Opioid Crisis Describe the Population Health concern you selected and the factors that contribute to it. Drug overdoses involving death continue to progress and rise in the U.S. In 2017 alone, more than 70,200 drug overdoses contained an opioid and 700,000 have died as a result between (CDC, 2018). The average number of 130 individuals die daily due to an opioid overdose (CDC, 2018). The U.S. Department of Health and Human services, the increase of opioid prescriptions contributed to the extensive misuse of prescription opioids before it was known these medications were highly addictive. As physicians began to raise the number of prescriptions, the opioid crisis started getting bigger and out of control. Administration (President Name) (Current President) Donald Trump (Previous President) Barack Obama (Previous President) George W. Bush Describe the administrative agenda focus related to this issue for the In Octobe