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AOL
April 13, 2018
The Trump administration has released some White House visitor logs as part of a settlement with a watchdog group that sued to see the records. Public Citizen had accused the Trump administration of violating the Freedom of Information Act in its August 2017 lawsuit. The group announced WednesdayÃâà...
WUSA9.com
April 13, 2018
A special guest listening to the sad stories was Jim Carroll, the acting Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. RELATED: Md. mothers of overdose victims want Big Pharma to pay. "The President has committed billions of dollars toward this epidemic toward fighting this. What is most important,Ãâà...
Reason (blog)
April 13, 2018
During the George W. Bush administration, the Office of National Drug Control Policy calculated that people convicted of simple possession (and no other offense) accounted for 0.7 percent of state prisoners in 1997. Even if you include cultivation and distribution, marijuana offenders represent a smallÃâà...
WBAL Baltimore
April 13, 2018
He is a member of the Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council, served as a regional expert for the Office of National Drug Control Policy Technology Transfer Program, and consulted with the Foreign Terrorism Tracking Task Force, which was established in October 2001. In addition to serving on variousÃâà...
Government Accountability Office
April 13, 2018
concerted effort, led by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), to examine and address data related concerns will enhance agencies' efforts continue to understand and respond to the opioid epidemic. Federal agencies have adapted to the opioid epidemic by, among other things, expandingÃâà...
HuffPost
April 13, 2018
Visitor records for the Office of National Drug Control Policy will be released soon, according to Public Citizen. “The public now can see who is visiting these four agencies, as they should have been able to see all along,” said Robert Weissman, the group's president, in a statement. “Now we'll at least haveÃâà...
ABC News
April 12, 2018
The agencies posting visitor information this week are the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Council on Environmental Quality and the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The agencies redacted the names of some visitors for privacy reasons. PublicÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
April 12, 2018
The agencies posting visitor information this week are the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Council on Environmental Quality and the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The agencies redacted the names of some visitors for privacy reasons.
RadioWest
April 12, 2018
Jim Carroll is the acting director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. He visited from Washington D.C. to learn about Utah's specific needs. "You've visited one community that is impacted and you have visited one community that is impacted. Every community is different, whether it's an urban setting,Ãâà...
Cecil Daily
March 28, 2018
After Friday's visit, the Whig asked Harris, who as an anesthesiologist is one of Congress's few medical professionals, about his views on the Trump administration's attempts to weaken the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, an executive branch office that evaluates and coordinates federalÃâà...
Thegardenisland.com
March 28, 2018
The Kauai Police Department will be asking to accept funds awarded by the Office of National Drug Control Policy to be used for technical communications and wireless equipment to be used in conjunction with the Hawaii High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program administered by the Office of NationalÃâà...
WBIW.com
March 28, 2018
(SOUTH BEND) - U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly and U.S. Representative Trey Hollingsworth (IN-09) Tuesday urged the White House to utilize the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to track all federally funded initiatives aimed at fighting the opioid epidemic. The proposal was previously includedÃâà...
Herald-Mail Media
March 27, 2018
That designation by the Office of National Drug Control Policy would bring them additional federal resources to address the influx of drugs and reduce substance abuse. There are at least 21 HIDTA counties in West Virginia, including Berkeley and Jefferson. "It's sad to say, but every county in West VirginiaÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
March 27, 2018
The FBI Safe Streets Task Force is a Gulf Coast High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area initiative and receives funding from the Office of National Drug Control Policy in Washington, D.C. It is made up of special agents from the FBI and law enforcement officers from the Pascagoula, Moss Point, Gautier andÃâà...
Montgomery County Sentinel
March 20, 2018
Raskin offered the “extraordinary” decision to cut the budget for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy by 90 percent as a further example of how Trump and his administration show “no real focus or leadership” in the face of a declared Public Health Emergency. “It'd be one thing if [Trump]Ãâà...
Politico
March 20, 2018
“This isn't going to go away in a couple years,” Parsons, the hospital's chief clinical officer, said of the epidemic. Regina LaBelle, who served as chief of staff at the Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Obama administration, likens the states' challenge to “flying a plane while you're building it .
Harvard Gazette
March 20, 2018
One of the big takeaways from the first panel — moderated by Dr. Bertha Madras, who was deputy director of the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy under George W. Bush and who has most recently been one of the people on the opioid commission along with Gov. Baker — is that we know thatÃâà...
CNN
March 20, 2018
Jim Carroll, who previously worked in the White House counsel's office, served as a deputy chief of staff in the wake of Nielsen's departure, but was never formally appointed to the position despite initial plans to do so. He now serves as acting director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
fox5sandiego.com
March 20, 2018
"I wish to emphasize that while there are many high-impact policies available to us, I do not think that cracking down on sanctuary cities is one of them," Keith Humphreys, who was an adviser for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Bush and Obama administrations, said inÃâà...
KTLA
March 19, 2018
"I wish to emphasize that while there are many high-impact policies available to us, I do not think that cracking down on sanctuary cities is one of them," Keith Humphreys, who was an adviser for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Bush and Obama administrations, said inÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
March 19, 2018
Instead, the White House has sought deep cuts to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The new plan appeared in some ways reminiscent of the president's much-ballyhooed infrastructure plan unveiled this year, which called mainly for state and private funding for major projects. New Hampshire isÃâà...
Massillon Independent
March 18, 2018
Bill Bennett, the former director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, is urging policymakers to learn from the successes of prior attempts to combat drug use — namely better border enforcement, better monitoring of international mail services, a crackdown on cartel activity and a focus on treatmentÃâà...
Youngstown Vindicator
March 18, 2018
Congressman Tim Ryan is right: Instead of building the wall, the president should enhance security to inspect and protect U.S. ports against illegal drug imports. Robert Weiner is former spokesman for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the U.S. House Narcotics Committee and anÃâà...
NBCNews.com
March 17, 2018
The Office of National Drug Control Policy is the executive branch agency that was created in 1986 to handle drug policy. Sources tell NBC News the former acting director of that agency, Richard Baum, has not had much contact with Conway or her “opioid cabinet." Reached by NBC News, Baum said heÃâà...
Nonprofit Quarterly
March 16, 2018
Keith Humphreys, a Stanford University professor of psychiatry and Obama-era policy advisor to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), says, “The administration's impulse seems to be not to spend more—in fact, to spend less.” Humphreys goes on to say, “It's very hard to make sense of.
Bangor Daily News
March 10, 2018
“I don't believe that expanding the drug penalty further for other trafficking offenses is going to solve the opioid epidemic,” she said. Regina LaBelle, deputy chief of staff at the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Obama administration, said that current laws that allow for drug dealers to be chargedÃâà...
Syracuse.com
March 9, 2018
Taylor Weyeneth, 24, has started a new job at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he will focus on opioid policy as a mid-level official at the agency, Politico reported. Weyeneth left a high-level post at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in late January amidÃâà...
ThinkProgress
March 9, 2018
Taylor Weyeneth briefly helped run the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a relatively small but traditionally high-profile agency within the broader machinery of government drug policy. He had none of the resume one might expect for someone in such a position, his only prior professionalÃâà...
Jamestown Post Journal
March 9, 2018
Chuck Schumer, D-NY, called the proposed changes a “deadly mistake.” Schumer announced in a press release that the administration's budget proposal would basically get rid of the HIDTA office, move the program administration from the Office of National Drug Control Policy and relocate it to the JusticeÃâà...
Politico
March 8, 2018
President Donald Trump's former liaison to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, who was pushed out after questions surfaced about his lack of experience, has joined the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Taylor Weyeneth will serve as a mid-level official in the office of CommunityÃâà...
Vox
March 1, 2018
Drug overdose deaths — originally from prescription opioids but increasingly now from heroin and fentanyl — have emerged as an increasingly grave social issue, steadily worsening over the past few years even as the economy improves. In that light, I thought this little nugget of reporting in the 23rdÃâà...
Albany Times Union
March 1, 2018
Currently under the purview of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, the program promotes cooperation and intelligence-sharing among local, state and federal authorities as a key offensive strategy in the war on opioids. "Most of these drugs come from out of state," Schumer said.
The Sentinel-Echo
March 1, 2018
The Executive Director of the Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (AHIDTA), Vic Brown, has announced that Thelma Hedrick has been awarded the Mary Marshall Award for Outstanding HIDTA Support from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). Ms. Hedrick traveled to WashingtonÃâà...
Buffalo News
March 1, 2018
President Trump's proposed fiscal 2019 budget would move the federal High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program away from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and over to the Justice Department. To Schumer as well as to several top law enforcement officers – including ByronÃâà...
Newsday
February 27, 2018
The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas, or HIDTA program, which is comprised of 28 regional task forces across the country that concentrate efforts on fentanyl and heroin, would be shifted from its current home in the Office of National Drug Control Policy to the Department of Justice — an estimated $340Ãâà...
STAT
February 16, 2018
ASHINGTON — Charmaine Yoest, the top communications official at the Department of Health and Human Services, is leaving HHS for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, three sources with knowledge of the move told STAT. She is the latest administration official to leave for the drug policy office,Ãâà...
Observer
February 15, 2018
There are still numerous key vacancies in Donald Trump's government more than a year into his administration—and in jobs that are far more important, including foreign ambassadorships. So the fact that there's still no full-time director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy is not by itself notable orÃâà...
ABC News
February 12, 2018
The Trump administration's FY2019 budget released Monday requests more than $30 billion for drug control efforts, while at the same time proposing a sharp cut to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which has been leading the fight in the opioid crisis.
The Hill
February 12, 2018
Opponents argue the move would hamper the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) while the nation is in the middle of an opioid epidemic, saying they fear it would jeopardize the future of programs which help reduce substance abuse in youth and coordinate efforts to clamp down on drugÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
February 9, 2018
Jim Carroll would be the first Trump appointee to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Trump's first pick, Rep. Tom Marino, R-Pa., withdrew his nomination after The Washington Post reported that he was the chief advocate of a law that weakened DEA enforcement against drug manufacturers whoÃâà...
FierceHealthcare
February 7, 2018
Though the Trump administration is putting a focus on the opioid epidemic, the Office of National Drug Control Policy is being left out in the cold in those discussions. Instead, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is spearheading much of the Trump administration's work on opioids, according to anÃâà...
New York Times
February 6, 2018
A draft budget plan by the Office of Management and Budget would place federal law enforcement officers in charge of the drug trafficking grants rather than the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which has served as the White House's clearinghouse for drug strategy across the government and as aÃâà...
