Opinion: Congress created tools to fight the opioid crisis. But is the administration using them?
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.
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