It’s one of America’s most ferociously complex and deadly problems and it’s wreaking havoc in communities across huge swaths of the country. But relax: Kellyanne Conway is the new Opioid Czar. What’s my prediction for the fight? I’ll let Clubber Lang take that question.

+ Quartz: Three things we know about how Kellyanne Conway will handle being opioid czar.

+ The DEA is opening its first new field office in nearly two decades in Louisville, Kentucky.

+ “As an admiral I helped run the most powerful military on Earth, but I couldn’t save my son from the scourge of opioid addiction.” The Atlantic: No Family Is Safe From This Epidemic.