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| Donald Trump's pick for drug czar withdraws amid claims he made opioid epidemic worse | Donald Trump's pick for drug czar withdraws amid claims he made opioid epidemic worse |
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| Donald Trump's pick for drug czar has "withdrawn his name from consideration" after reports saying his actions had damaged the US's efforts to counter a prescription painkiller epidemic, the President has said. | |
| An expose by The Washington Post and CBS' “60 Minutes” revealed that Republican Congressman Tom Marino had championed a bill that effectively handcuffed federal agents from pursuing pharmaceutical companies that flooded the country with addictive opioids. | |
| On Monday, Mr Trump had promised to reverse his nomination of Mr Marino to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy if “it's 1 percent negative to doing what we want to do.” | |
| “As far as Tom Marino, so he was a very early supporter of mine, the great state of Pennsylvania. He's a great guy,” Trump said during a Rose Garden news conference Monday afternoon. “I did see the report. We’re going to look into the report. We’re going to take it very seriously because we’re going to have a major announcement probably next week on the drug crisis and on the opioid massive problem, and I want to get that absolutely right… We're going to be looking into Tom.” | |
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