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FILE - Officials walk past images of illegal drugs outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building on May 13, 2021, in Los Angeles. Federal authorities say they have arrested at least 10 suspected drug dealers accused of selling fentanyl and other opioids that led to overdose deaths. A new report shows that nearly 2,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles County during the first year of the pandemic, an increase of 56% from the previous year, driven mainly by drug overdoses. The findings released Friday, April 22, 2022 in a report from the county's Department of Public Health are the latest illustration of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted California's staggering population of unhoused people. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

California authorities seize nearly 100 pounds of fentanyl

Associated Press

This July 3, 2018, file photo from New York shows a Narcan nasal device that delivers naloxone. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) ** FILE **

Biden’s first national drug strategy relies on antidotes, border enforcement

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Former Mount Carmel Health doctor William Husel hugs his wife, Mariah Baird, after he was found not guilty on 14 counts of murder in connection with fentanyl overdose deaths of former patients on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 in Columbus, Ohio. Husel was accused of ordering excessive painkillers for 14 patients in the Mount Carmel Health System. He was indicted in cases that involved at least 500 micrograms of the powerful painkiller fentanyl. (Doral Chenoweth/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, Pool)

Ohio doctor found not guilty in 14 hospital patient deaths

Associated Press

Huston Ochoa, a clinical counselor for The Spot, hands out samples of Narcan, which can reduce opioid overdoses, to spring breakers on Fort Lauderdale Beach, Fla., on March 31, 2022. Community activists are warning spring breakers of a surge in recreational drugs being laced with the dangerous opioid fentanyl, and offered them an antidote for overdoses _ which have risen nationally during the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Freida Frisaro)

Florida groups canvass spring breakers to warn of fentanyl

By Freida Frisaro - Associated Press

A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by Customs and Border Protection officers is shown during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. A Mexican national was sentenced Friday to nine years in federal prison for trafficking the largest amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl seized by U.S. authorities in 2021 and 2022. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)

States look for solutions as U.S. fentanyl deaths keep rising

By Geoff Mulvihill - Associated Press

How we solve the fentanyl crisis and save lives

By U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Army cadets march on the field before an NCAA college football game against Navy in West Point, N.Y., in this Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020, file photo. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)

Suspect in West Point overdose case behind bars in Florida

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

Biden’s state of denial address

By Scott Walker

Former Los Angeles Angels employee Eric Kay walks out of federal court where he is on trial for federal drug distribution and conspiracy charges, in Fort Worth, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. Kay is accused of providing Tyler Skaggs the drugs that led to the pitcher's overdose death. The 27-year-old Skaggs was found dead in July 2019 in a suburban Dallas hotel room. He had choked to death on his vomit, and a toxic mix of alcohol, fentanyl and oxycodone was in his system. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Former Angels employee convicted in Skaggs’ overdose death

By Schuyler Dixon - Associated Press

Soldiers patrol near the hamlet Plaza Vieja in the Michoacan state of Mexico, Oct. 28, 2021. The self-defense movement in the nearby town of Tepalcatepec, said improvised land mines severely damaged an army armored car on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. In the war raging between drug cartels in western Mexico, gangs have begun using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on roads to disable army vehicles. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Drug cartels surge amid Biden’s border shifts and falling cooperation with Mexico

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Synthetic drugs such as fentanyl and methamphetamine Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Synthetic drugs are different, and so should be our response

By Jim Crotty

Actor Michael K. Williams poses for a portrait at the Beverly Hilton during the 2016 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour on July 30, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. A federal prosecutor says four men have been charged in the overdose death of Williams, who gained fame playing Omar Little on &quot;The Wire.&quot; New York City’s medical examiner earlier ruled that the 54-year-old Williams died of acute drug intoxication in September. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

4 charged in death of ‘The Wire’ actor Michael K. Williams

By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

This photo provided by Nancy Sack shows Carter Lange, Kim Gustavson, Jason Lange, Matthew Gustavson and Travis Gustavson. Nancy Sack's grandson, Travis Gustavson, died at age 21 in Mankato after overdosing on what he thought was heroin but was actually laced with fentanyl.(Katie Tettam /Nancy Sack via AP)

U.S. overdose deaths topped 100,000 in one year, officials say

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

In this March 2, 2019 file photo a Customs and Border Control agent patrols on the US side of a razor-wire-covered border wall that separates Nogales, Mexico from Nogales, Ariz. A U.S. Border Patrol agent has died after being found unresponsive while on patrol near the Arizona border, but authorities say there's no evidence of foul play. The agency's Tucson sector says in a Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, statement that agents on Sunday found 44-year-old Robert Hotten unresponsive near Mount Washington south of Patagonia in southeastern Arizona. He was patrolling alone, which is customary. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel,File)

Biden migrant surge sets all-time record for most arrests at southern border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This photo provided by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Phoenix Division shows one of four containers holding some of the 30,000 fentanyl pills the agency seized in one of its bigger busts in Tempe, Ariz., in August 2017. Fentanyl is a potent synthetic opioid. (Drug Enforcement Administration via AP)

China’s pill that kills

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Texas Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol officers watch as migrants, many from Haiti, wade across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Texas, to return to Ciudad Acuna, Mexico, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, to avoid deportation from the U.S. The U.S. is flying Haitians camped in a Texas border town back to their homeland and blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

‘There’s no control’: Border chaos invades America’s heartland

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, May 10, 2020, file photo, Sharon Rivera adjusts flowers and other items left at the grave of her daughter, Victoria, at Calvary Cemetery in New York, on Mother's Day. Victoria died of a drug overdose on Sept. 22, 2019, when she just 21 years old. According to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, drug overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

U.S overdose deaths hit record 93,000 in pandemic last year

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press

Tragedies pile up with drug overdoses surging amid pandemic

By JAMIE LANDERS - Associated Press

Congress passes extension of opioid enforcement tool

By MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

Opioid use, fentanyl deaths in Maryland spike amid pandemic

By CALLAN TANSILL-SUDDATH of Capital News Service - Associated Press