Biden picks former West Virginia health official as drug czar

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Meet Biden's new drug czar: former West Virginia public health commissioner Rahul Gupta

The Biden administration is tapping Rahul Gupta as its top drug policy official, charging the former West Virginia public health commissioner with leading federal efforts to combat a spiraling addiction crisis.

Gupta, who was most recently the chief medical officer at the March of Dimes, gained national recognition for hisin West Virginia, a state ravaged by the opioid epidemic. His approach to identifying populations at high risk for overdose has served as a national model and made him an early frontrunner to lead the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy.

 

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natsfert With Kevin Sabet ☝️involvement....... MSOGang

God, I hate that term!

Of course they never ask why this is going on in the first place. Interesting how, so many of these overdoses, were using illicit drugs, but were in the PDMP Database.

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