Michael Botticelli, the former director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, is speaking at Siena College in Loudonville, NY this afternoon.
Botticelli is a 1980 Siena graduate who worked for 18 years at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health including time as the director of its Bureau of Substance Abuse Services. Botticelli tells WAMC that during his career working on drug control, he experienced addiction firsthand.