‘Elections have consequences’: How to prepare for a new administration

In February of 2017, when President‐Elect Donald Trump was just into his first month in office, he proposed eliminating the Office of National Drug Control Policy. We covered this story in depth (see ADAW https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adaw.30864 ), and one former federal employee told us at the time: “Elections have consequences. Fundamentally, it's a Trump administration now.” It's true again, but this time, addiction treatment and prevention groups are better organized. The message is not one of gloom and doom: it is one of how to show that your programs have impact, a different former federal employee – who was with the government for almost four decades and whose boss changed with every new administration (and who survived every change) – told ADAW last week.