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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