Powerful opioid easy to buy online, Congress finds

Published January 24, 2018 10:06pm ET



Buying the powerful painkiller fentanyl is as easy as doing a Google search, a new congressional report finds.

Congressional investigators posed as first-time buyers of the opioid and found six online sellers able to easily ship the drug from overseas to the U.S. The report released Wednesday found major deficiencies in tracking packages partly due to a lack of international cooperation.

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