"It can sometimes be hard to connect how our diplomats and international programs impact our everyday lives. But the heart-wrenching truth is that there is nothing “foreign” about what happened to Bailey Henke and his community in North Dakota, or to the hundreds of thousands of families across our nation who know the scourge of opioid addiction all too well. When it comes to combating the opioid epidemic, we simply don’t have the luxury of battling this crisis on the homefront alone."

USA Today

August 2, 2018