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In the first 10 months of 2024, the Canadian border service reported seizing 10.8lb (4.9kg) of fentanyl entering from the US, while US Border Patrol intercepted 32.1lb (14.6kg) of fentanyl coming ...
Under President Joe Biden, the US Department of Health and Human Services launched a coordinated national strategy to prevent overdoses, with efforts focused on harm reduction – such as fentanyl ...
Aaron McCrorie, vice president of intelligence and enforcement at Canada’s border agency, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in December 2024: “As a source of fentanyl to the United States ...
The U.S. has spent millions on high-tech scanners to spot fentanyl crossing the border, but many sit in warehouses unused because Congress hasn’t appropriated funds to install them.
President Donald Trump's new tariff orders against Canada, Mexico and China all contain clauses suspending a duty-free exemption for low-value shipments below $800 that is widely seen as a ...
Fentanyl. 2 mg (white powder to the right) is a lethal dose in most people. [9] [10] US penny is 19 mm (0.75 in) wide. Opioids were involved in around 80,400 of the around 106,700 deaths in 2021. [7] See map higher up for states with the highest overdose death rates. Three waves of opioid overdose deaths. [11]
The Trump administration is billing the new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China as critical to preventing fentanyl and other drugs from pouring across the U.S. border, rather than a step in an ...
The trade has evolved from 2016 when fentanyl was entering primarily via mail, concealed in envelopes, to now when machinery, dyes, and other materials are arriving via ships and planes to the ...