Carter Hosts Homelessness and Drug Treatment Summit, With Secretary Kennedy Joining the Effort
April 20, 2026 · Office of National Drug Control Policy · 0:01:31
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What happened
Drug Czar Sara Carter opened a summit and toolkit event on homelessness and drug treatment, saying the administration would put treatment first, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s video. Carter said Dr. Alveda King had delivered the convocation earlier in the day, and she framed the event as the start of a major change in how the country treats homelessness and the drug crisis, as she presented it.
Carter said the homeless cannot be ignored or set aside, describing them as brothers, sisters, parents and children, and said the goal is to make treatment and recovery easier to get than drugs off the street, as she stated the aim. She announced that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would join the event and said he was on board working with HUD Secretary Scott Turner and the drug czar’s office, as she described the interagency effort. She also thanked Kathryn Burgum and her own ONDCP staff for making the event possible, according to the video.
Why it matters
The summit links three agencies — ONDCP, HHS and HUD — around a single proposition Carter stated plainly: treatment access, not enforcement alone, is the administration’s answer where homelessness and addiction meet.
Sources: Office of National Drug Control Policy, “Drug Czar Sara Carter hosts summit of drug treatment for homeless”, 2026-04-20 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-04-20). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.
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