“Just factually, fentanyl is really horrible. It is a boogeyman. And what's more, it's killing young people.”
It seemed to Brian Mann that Republicans backed Democrats into a corner on fentanyl—and they haven’t let up. Now that the election is over, this narrative of fentanyl as a kind of boogeyman isn’t going to go way. “Just factually, fentanyl is really horrible. ItMonday’s episode of What Next
. These folks were well-educated, high-achieving, and they were young—26, 38, and 40. They had all ordered cocaine from a delivery service, and it had been laced with fentanyl.In the past, Mann might have considered a story like this to be fearmongering. Now, he doesn’t think about it like that. Because these days three-quarters of all drug-involved deaths involve fentanyl.
The short answer is that there was not a coordinated response. What we’ve seen over time is a lot of confusion and disarray within the major government agencies that deal with drug addiction, within the public health community, within the medical field. We saw, for example, during the Trump administration, a diplomatic crisis that almost completely wrecked the ability to target fentanyl producers in Mexico.
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