For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
September 6, 2001
President to Nominate Barthwell to Drug Control Policy Office
President Bush to Nominate Barthwell to be Deputy Director for Demand Reduction of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate Dr.
Andrea G. Barthwell to be Deputy Director for Demand Reduction of the
Office of National Drug Control Policy. Dr. Barthwell is
presently the Executive Vice President of the Human Resources
Development Group, the President of Encounter Medical Group and the
President and CEO of BRASS Foundation, an addiction and treatment
Center in Chicago, Illinois. Additionally, she is the President of the
Board of Directors of the American Society of Addiction Medicine and a
member of the board of the American Methadone Treatment
Association. Barthwell has served on a variety of community
and professional boards and committees including the National Advisory
Board of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, the Federal Drug
Administration's Drug Abuse Advisory Committee, the Illinois Department
of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse's AIDS Committee and the National
Black Alcoholism and Addictions Council. Barthwell is a
graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut and received her Medical
Degree from the University of Michigan.
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