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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 ...
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 ...
This October 2024 photo shows seized firearms and illicit drugs, including fentanyl, on display at a Royal Canadian Mounted Police news conference in Surrey, British Columbia.
Most fentanyl enters the United States through Mexico, CBS News has previously reported. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has said Mexican cartels are "at the heart" of the United States ...
[25] [24] [26] Fentanyl constitutes the majority of all drug overdose deaths in the United States since it overtook heroin in 2018. [25] The United States National Forensic Laboratory estimates fentanyl reports by federal, state, and local forensic laboratories increased from 4,697 reports in 2014 to 117,045 reports in 2020. [27]
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.
Fentanyl and related laboratory-made opioid compounds coming across the U.S. border from Mexico – often in the form of black-market prescription painkiller pills – have killed hundreds of ...
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 ...