Oct. 17 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that his nominee for drug czar, Rep. Tom Marino, withdrew his name from consideration.
The Washington Post and CBS' "60 Minutes" television program jointly reported that Marino, R-Pa., supported legislation friendly to the pharmaceutical industry. The reports said a bill he advocated undermined efforts to limit the abuse of opioid-based pain pills. The bill, the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act, limits the Drug Enforcement Administration's efforts against drug distributors supplying black market narcotics to some doctors and pharmacists, the report said.