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Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration Anne Milgram testifies during a House Judiciary Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee hearing on oversight of the DEA, Thursday, July 27, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

DEA chief: Fentanyl remains the top threat, but a worse synthetic drug could emerge

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Nogales Port of Entry is shown during a press conference, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP) **FILE**

State fentanyl crackdowns called racist, ineffective

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Police and military patrol Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Jan. 6, 2023, the day after the government detained Ovidio Guzman, the son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, which unleashed deadly firefights between the military and suspected members of the Sinaloa drug cartel. With Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán serving a life sentence, his sons steered the family business into fentanyl, establishing a network of labs churning out massive quantities they smuggled into the U.S., prosecutors in the U.S. revealed in an indictment unsealed April 14, 2023, in Manhattan. (AP Photo/Martin Urista) ** FILE **

Biden sends delegation to Mexico City for talks on fentanyl, migration

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a meeting with civil rights leaders and consumer protection experts to discuss the societal impact of Artificial intelligence, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, in Washington, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Vice President Harris sounded the alarm Tuesday over fake pills that are laced with deadly fentanyl and killing young Americans, saying the U.S. must be “clear-eyed” and honest about the scourge that is devastating families. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Kamala Harris warns parents about fake pills laced with fentanyl

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Prince George's County police block the road to the police station, Monday morning. (AP photo/Jessica Gresko) **FILE**

Greenbelt man pleads guilty to federal gun and drug charges, including owning a machine gun

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler holds a news conference on Aug. 30, 2020, in Portland, Ore. City Council members in Portland have voted to allocate $27 million of the city's budget to build a network of designated camping areas for homeless people. (Sean Meagher/The Oregonian via AP) **FILE**

Lawmakers nix plan to hand out fentanyl-smoking supplies in Portland: Report

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

A bag of 4-fluoro isobutyryl fentanyl which was seized in a drug raid is displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va., on Aug. 9, 2016. China on Friday, July 7, 2023, insisted it is up to the U.S. to “create necessary conditions” for anti-drugs cooperation, following complaints from Washington that Beijing has ignored its calls for a crackdown on precursor chemicals for the highly addictive painkiller fentanyl. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

China says up to U.S. to create ‘necessary conditions’ for anti-drugs cooperation

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A box of Narcan sits in the Savage Sisters' community outreach storefront in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Wednesday, May 24, 2023. Generically known as Naloxone, the medication used revive people who have stopped breathing, doesn’t reverse the effects of xylazine. Philadelphia officials stress that naloxone should still be administered in all cases of suspected overdose, since xylazine is almost always found in combination with fentanyl. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Tranq increasingly linked to opioid deaths, CDC finds

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a press conference with U.S. Attorney Breon Peace, left, and Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco, right, to announce arrests and disruptions of the fentanyl precursor chemical supply chain on Friday, June 23, 2023 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

U.S. launches prosecutions of Chinese companies on charges of trafficking fentanyl ingredients

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A community member holds a hot cup of coffee at the Savage Sisters' outreach storefront in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Wednesday, May 24, 2023. Xylazine, a powerful animal sedative that's moving through the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to the opioid crisis, causing gruesome skin wounds and scrambling longstanding methods for treating addiction and reversing overdoses. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Tranq, animal sedative, adds new suffering to opioid drug crisis, but is it driving up deaths?

By Matthew Perrone - Associated Press

China fueling America’s epidemic with fentanyl laced vapes illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

China is fueling America’s fentanyl epidemic through illegal, disposable flavored vapes

By Greg Swan

This August 2017 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. As the number of U.S. overdose deaths continues to soar, states are trying to take steps to combat a flood of the drug that has proved the most lethal — illicitly produced fentanyl. (Drug Enforcement Administration via AP) **FILE**

House lawmakers file bipartisan bill to crack down on fake pills laced with fentanyl

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

From left, Chris Fonzone, General Counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, George Barnes, Deputy Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), David Cohen, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Paul Abbate, Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Matt Olsen, Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division of the Department of Justice, are sworn in before testifying at a Senate Judiciary Oversight Committee hearing to examine Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and related surveillance authorities, Tuesday, June 13, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

FBI pleads to keep FISA spy powers despite concerns over growing abuses

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Islah Hadith poses for a photograph, Wednesday, May 3, 2023, in Baltimore. Hadith became addicted to pain killers in her 20s when she broke her ankle playing basketball in high heels. The Baltimore City Health Department's harm reduction program uses an RV to address the opioid crisis, which includes expanding access to medication assisted treatment by deploying a team of medical staff to neighborhoods with high rates of substance abuse and offering buprenorphine prescriptions. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Abstinence not required: How a Baltimore drug treatment program prioritizes saving lives

By Lea Skene - Associated Press

Kim Adams of the SOAR Initiative, a nonprofit that seeks to prevent drug overdoses in Ohio, packs fentanyl testing strips to be shipped out to anonymous recipients on April 13, 2023, at their office in Columbus, Ohio. The test strips, previously labeled as illegal drug paraphernalia, were only recently decriminalized in the state this spring as part of a nationwide effort to save people who use drugs from overdosing on the deadly synthetic opioid. (AP Photo/Samantha Hendrickson)

‘Keep them alive’: More states legalize fentanyl test strips to combat surging opioid deaths

By SAmantha Hendrickson - Associated Press

State Rep. Rob Brooks, R-Saukville, sits during the Assembly's session on June 22, 2021, at the Capitol in Madison, Wis. Police say the drugs laced with fentanyl that killed one person and caused three more to overdose on May 5, 2023, were purchased at a bar owned by Brooks. (Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

Wisconsin lawmaker says his bar where overdose victims bought drugs isn’t ‘bad establishment’

By Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press

Fentanyl medical bottle. Sonis Photography / Shutterstock *FILE*

House votes to put fentanyl and its drug cousins on restrictive Schedule I list; bill awaits Senate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 18, 2019 file photo, Rep. Bob Latta, R-Ohio, speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington. Latta became the second member of Congress representing Ohio to test positive this week for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated against the virus. The Republican lawmaker from Ohio’s 5th Congressional District announced Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, he contracted the virus after he was exposed to someone who also tested positive. (House Television via AP, File)

House to vote on bill that permanently restricts fentanyl and related drugs

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Illegal fentanyl is safely handled and contained. File photo credit: Darwin Brandis via Shutterstock.

Student charged with murder after two classmates die of fentanyl overdoses hours before graduation

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Ambulance. File image credit Chris D swabb via Shutterstock.

7 people treated for fentanyl overdoses in Washington jail

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