[Pharmwaste] Kellyanne Conway leading an ‘opioids cabinet'

[Ed Gottlieb]

STAT story:  Kellyanne Conway leading an ‘opioids cabinet,’ as she assumes more active policy role



Selected excerpts:

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, has been leading weekly meetings at the White House with officials across a dozen federal departments to develop a plan to respond to the opioid crisis and to implement recommendations from a presidentially appointed commission, she and other officials told STAT.

The “opioids cabinet,” as the group is known, is intended to help streamline efforts across the government and includes staffers from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of National Drug Control Policy, among other executive branch offices.

Despite her unorthodox background, Conway has impressed some addiction policy experts of varying political leanings with her tone, sincerity, and policy expertise.

“Unfortunately the administration’s been living in chaos and has really been unable to get out from underneath the weight of their own self-induced crises,” said former Democratic Congressman Patrick Kennedy, who sat on the White House commission, which concluded its work in November.

“If anybody can get the administration to do that successfully, I think it’s Kellyanne,” Kennedy continued. “Bringing in someone else who the president doesn’t know as well or have confidence in isn’t the right answer, given this president. In another administration you’d get someone with a tremendous CV and unsurpassed record of commitment to public health to lead this. But the president, as we all know, operates very differently from past presidents.”

https://www.statnews.com/2017/12/14/kellyanne-conway-opioids/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&utm_campaign=00753c23be-Daily_Recap&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8cab1d7961-00753c23be-149620549



Ed Gottlieb
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