WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden appointed the former West Virginia Health Commissioner as the top anti-drug official, knocked a doctor who served at the forefront of the epidemic of the National Opioid.
The White House said on Tuesday that Dr.
Rahul Gupta would be the first doctor to lead the National Narcotics Control Policy Office, also known as “czar medicine.” The nomination praised the bipartisan from Western Virginia officials.
The Governor of the Republic of Jim Justice calls it “Great News,” and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said Pick “means someone with direct knowledge of the opioid crisis, especially in West Virginia, will coordinate the National War against the narcotics epidemic which continues to destroy us nation.” “Dr.
Gupta will bring more than a decade of extensive experience that combat the drug epidemic to ONDCP – offices assigned by overcoming drug epidemics that have killed more than 90,000 Americans last year,” Manchin said in a statement.
The most recent Gupta served as Chief Medical and Health Officer in March Dimes.
Biden chose the official EX-West Virginia Rahul Gupta health as a tsar medicine
