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Joining me now is michael bot chile. he was drug czar during the obama administration and is currently executive director of the gray kin center for addiction medicine at boston med. thank you so much for joining us, michael. what would a national emergency declaration look like when it comes to the fight against opioids? >> well, i think it's important that we continue to shine a spotlight on the devastation and tragedy of this epidemic. unless that's followed by real resources and action, it will really be essentially meaningless. i think that it's somewhat ironic that the president talks ab...

Expansion has been one of the prime tools that states have been able to utilize in making a dent in this epidemic. >> michael bot chile, former dwrek tore of national drug control policy under president obama. i'm glad we let you get that in. happy friday. and right after the break, we'll have one more thing for you. (upbeat dance music) (bell ringing)

>> so we know that, you know, unfortunately, addiction is a disease of early onset. and we need to promote good education and prevention efforts before kids start to use. >> how do you do that? >> we need to -- so there's great evidence based prevention programs. grant funding through the office of national drug control policy and through sam's that promote good evidence based and community based prevention programs. we know how to do this. it's not as if we have a lack of knowledge around what we need to do to prevent this epidemic and treat it successfully. it's really a function of do we ha...