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Don’t let all the chaos and scandals of the Trump administration distract you from one of their most stunning successes: They’ve utterly changed the conversation in Washington when it comes to drug crimes. While a few prominent voices on Capitol Hill continue to call for doing away with mandatory minimum …

Lawmakers, law enforcement officials and the nation’s health care community are cheering President Trump’s move Thursday to officially designate the nation’s opioid crisis a public health emergency, even as many of them openly wonder if he has gone far enough. The action – a 90-day declaration that Trump could then …