Overdose Prevention Week, 2025

Proclamation 10967 of August 28, 2025

Overdose Prevention Week, 2025

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

The safety, health, and well-being of our people is
essential to building a resilient Nation. Tragically,
one of the gravest threats to American lives is the
drug overdose crisis, which has caused heartbreak and
suffering on untold numbers of families. This Overdose
Prevention Week, we remember those who lost their lives
to overdose, we stand beside the families left to
grieve, and we renew our solemn commitment to ending
this epidemic once and for all.

Under the previous administration, our country endured
a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions on our
southern border. Deadly drugs like fentanyl and other
opioids flooded into our cities and towns, falling into
the hands of our children, siblings, parents, friends,
and neighbors, and leaving devastation in their wake.
Over the past year, more than 80,000 of our fellow
citizens have died from drug overdoses. Children have
vanished from classrooms, parents from dinner tables,
and entire neighborhoods have been shaken by
unconscionable grief and sorrow.

To combat this vicious assault on the American people,
in July, I proudly signed into law the HALT Fentanyl
Act, which classifies fentanyl-related compounds as
Schedule I drugs. I also designated cartels as foreign
terrorist organizations--and with the passage of the
historic One Big Beautiful Bill, we are expanding the
southern border wall and deporting violent drug
traffickers who prey on our Nation's most vulnerable. I
will continue to do everything in my power to protect
children and families, end the scourge of drug
addiction, and keep lethal substances out of our
communities and out of the hands of our citizens.

During this week, my Administration calls on every
American to protect themselves and their families from
the perils of drug overdose. Preserving our American
inheritance depends on freedom from danger, freedom
from harm, and freedom to lead long, safe, and vigorous
lives. My Administration will never stop fighting to
achieve a future that protects its citizens, defends
its communities, and ensures that the American people
are happy, healthy, and free.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States, do hereby proclaim August 31 through
September 6, 2025, as Overdose Prevention Week. I call
upon my fellow Americans to observe this week with
appropriate programs, ceremonies, religious services,
and other activities that raise awareness about the
prescription opioid and drug overdose epidemic and to
consider concrete follow-up activities.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord
two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the two hundred and
fiftieth.