Biden urged not to give top FDA job to official over her role in opioid crisis

Dr Janet Woodcock is accused of presiding over one of the worst regulatory agency failures', say groups fighting opioid epidemic

Groups fighting the US opioid epidemic have called on Joe Biden to appoint a new head of the Food and Drug Administration after describing the acting commissioner as unfit for the post because of her part in the mass prescribing of painkillers that have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.