CDC director pledges to bring opioid epidemic 'to its knees'
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March 30, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — The new director of the top U.S. public health agency on Thursday pledged to work to bring the nation's opioid epidemic "to its knees" and said he believes the AIDS epidemic could be ended in three to seven years.
Dr. Robert Redfield Jr. made the comments at a staff meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Redfield started the job Monday, less than a week after U.S. officials announced they were appointing him the CDC director.
The 66-year-old rose to prominence in the 1980s as a top researcher into the emerging AIDS epidemic. Health leaders widely...
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