America can't rely on others

Fentanyl presents America with a terrible dilemma. More than 74,000 Americans died in 2023 after taking fentanyl or other drugs with fentanyl mixed in. There is no proven blueprint for stopping the scourge. We’ve spent over half a century trying to address the problem. The war on drugs that Richard Nixon declared in 1971 has produced nothing but billions in wasted spending. There’s only one realistic way to at least slow down the crisis. Persuade Americans to not take illicit drugs and help those addicted get off them. Good luck with that. As drugs go, fentanyl is fairly unique. It...

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