By Juliette Kayyem April 5 Juliette Kayyem, faculty chair of the Homeland Security project at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, was an assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2010. She is a senior adviser to the nonprofit Americans for Securing All Packages.
Fentanyl is a manufacturer’s dream. It does not require poppies, like heroin, but merely a lab and synthetic chemicals. It can be mixed with other drugs, increasing the magnitude of sales. It’s a perfect business model, but it requires a vulnerable supply chain to enter U.S. communities. Congress passed bipartisan legislation last year to address the opioid epidemic, including the Synthetics Trafficking and Opioids Prevention Act , which closes a security loophole that has provided traffickers with a pipeline to ship synthetic drugs into the country through the postal system. The Trump administration should be commended for pushing this legislation forward.
Congress has done nothing! Zero!
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The war on drugs is a collososal failure. A huge waste of time, money and lives. Time to reconsider the criminal law as the solution.
Opioids? Yes. I believe this administration is using opioids heavily.
No they’re worried about the President’s tax returns and can’t do anything else
Maybe we should focus on the underlying issues of addiction. If there is a market for these drugs people will find a way, not sure how much this will do
It’s realDonaldTrump who has taken on the war against opioids seriously. Even got China to declare fentanyl as ‘controlled’ substance ! He has also successfully tried to bring down prescription prices! Congress has Done barely nothin ! warondrugs OpioidCrisis
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By gutting the ACA it’s clear that Cheeto doesn’t want people to have insurance to get treatment. Treatment for anything costs about 15-20,000$.A lot of people that want to go just can’t afford it.Also there are not enough treatment centers to serve all the people that need help.
Designer drugs have become very popular in the US thanks to Mexican Cartel Mafia & it's partnership with the DEMOCRATIC PARTY CRIME SYNDICATE! Democrats desperate to keep border open for ILLEGAL DRUGS which bankrolls DEMOCRATS.
No. It doesn't...GOP only cares about funding Israel & prophecy.
Stop the insane war on drugs and the routes fade away. Cannabis has been found to be the best method of treating opiate addiction as well as alcoholism. Yet another example of federal backwardness interfering with state solutions.
They seized enough Fentanyl to kill every person in our country at the border recently. Does it harm WAPO to report on that news?
Oh they're using, just not the tools.
The war on drugs has proven the government really isn't good at fighting drug use. We just need better education to prevent more people from becoming junkies.
We “protect” people from all sorts of medicines and eobiotics. Perhaps congress prefers the harmful xenobiotics?
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