EXCLUSIVE — Dr. Rahul Gupta, the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, believes the Biden administration is substantively changing the course of the nation’s fentanyl crisis but cautioned that more must be done to address international supply and domestic addiction before declaring victory over the epidemic.
Gupta, the first medical doctor to lead ONDCP since its creation in 1988, spent roughly a decade combating the opioid crisis in West Virginia, leading the Kanawha-Charleston Department of Health from 2009-2014 before serving as the director of the state’s Bureau for Public Health from 2015-2018.
He sat down for a lengthy interview with the Washington Examiner on the subject and explained why ending the crisis is a much more complicated problem than some lawmakers, and even other drug policy experts, have claimed for the better part of the past decade.
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