ONDCP Hosts the White House Commemoration for Drug Overdose & Poisoning Awareness Week
September 1, 2026 · Office of National Drug Control Policy · 1:45:47
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What happened
The Office of National Drug Control Policy livestreamed its Commemoration for Drug Overdose & Poisoning Awareness Week on September 1, 2026 — the full program, carried on the office’s official channel. In its own account of the companion White House event, the ONDCP said it “was honored to be joined by Angel Families for the first-ever White House Commemoration for victims of drug overdose and poisoning,” adding: “In their memory, we vow to win this fight to save American lives,” as the office stated it. Director Sara Carter’s office organized and hosted the observance, which anchors the administration’s awareness-week programming around the families who have lost children and loved ones to overdose and poisoning.
Why it matters
The commemoration is the ceremonial center of Carter’s demand-side portfolio: the angel families whose testimony shapes her public case, gathered at the White House by her office for the first observance of its kind, as the ONDCP describes it. Alongside her enforcement interviews, it is the record of how the drug czar’s office presents the human stakes of the strategy.
Sources: Office of National Drug Control Policy, “Commemoration for Drug Overdose & Poisoning Awareness Week” (official livestream, embedded above) and the ONDCP’s account of the White House commemoration, September 2026. Characterizations as stated by the ONDCP.
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