Congress must come together and act on fentanyl

Published March 29, 2022 3:09pm ET



Last year, over 11,000 pounds of fentanyl were seized by Border Patrol agents. That is enough fentanyl to kill every American, all 330 million of us, several times over. And that’s just the drugs we know about.

For the first time ever, in 2021, we lost over 100,000 lives to overdose deaths in a single year, driven by the surge of fentanyl coming across our southern border.

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