Saying "we'll spend a lot of time, effort and money" is very different from actually doing something, for example restricting their sales/production to 5% of the current levels. Opioids are prescribed to 1/3 of the population at the moment, and that doesn't even include the illegal usage. Can you imagine the neonatal issues, and the resultant repercussions of bringing up a whole generation of addicts?

He says he wants to spend money on it, but judging by the types of people he's put into positions that have no qualifications to be there, it's hard to see his future intentions as anything more than funneling money to people connected to him.

The one thing that the US has consistently shown recently is for every state that has legalized or decriminalized/medicinal marijuana, opioid abuse and related deaths have plummeted, yet we have trump trying to crack down on this emerging trend.

So it's just more of say one thing but do another.