President Donald Trump has appointed Kathryn Burgum to a new White House effort to promote addiction recovery, the president announced Thursday at the White House.
Burgum, the wife of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, will co-chair the effort dubbed the Great American Recovery Initiative, Trump announced at an event in the Oval Office. She’ll work alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the initiative Trump said will aim to “combat the scourge of addiction and substance abuse.”
More than 190 million Americans “are impacted in some way by the disease of addiction,” Kathryn Burgum said Thursday at the White House. “I am one of them.”
She “started drinking in high school,” Burgum said. “I was a blackout drinker from the start. For 20 years, I struggled. Relapsing, constantly, constantly starting over, constantly trying to stay sober and failing.”
