Biden Admin Continues To Fumble The Fentanyl Crisis.

As the drug supply chain adapts to find new outlets, Beijing’s reaction to US requests in the course of a long campaign to stop the flow of fentanyl from Chinese labs to American cities and towns, where overdose deaths from opioids and other narcotics now surpass 100,000 per year, has proven inadequate. To combat the illegal fentanyl trade, new approaches are needed that emphasize self-regulation and best practices in the global pharmaceutical business while continuing to press for China’s assistance. According to a panel of experts on China and the illegal drug trade who spoke at a virtual event hosted by the Brookings Institution on March 28, this is the case. Vanda Felbab-Brown, author of a recent report on China’s role in the fentanyl trade; Rupert Stone, an Istanbul-based journalist; and Ryan Hass, a Brookings senior fellow and former Obama…

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China Doing Effectively Nothing To Halt The Fentanyl Trade. The Same Can Be Said For The Biden Admin.

Beijing has made only sporadic and half-hearted efforts to stop the flow of synthetic opioids like fentanyl from Chinese producers to international markets, where the medicines are causing record numbers of overdose deaths, especially in the United States. In addition, the communist regime continues to prioritize its geopolitical objectives over any significant reforms on this front. According to a recent Brookings Institution analysis prepared by Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow at the think tank, opioids are “the cause of the greatest U.S. drug epidemic ever,” with 104,288 Americans dying from drug overdoses between October 2020 and September 2021. Opioids were responsible for 78,388 of those deaths. According to Felbab-findings, Brown’s an already deadly opioid problem worsened 10 years ago when synthetic opioids like fentanyl displaced plant-based opioids and became increasingly used as ingredients in drug cocktails that also included cocaine…

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