Fentanyl is killing thousands of Americans. The DEA needs a clear strategy | Opinion
of more than $1.5 trillion annually — more than 5% of GDP. Sadly, the federal law enforcement agency with the single mission of fighting drugs, the Drug Enforcement Administration, is now failing to perform one of its most basic functions: educating law enforcement and the American people through the annual publication of theThe publication of yet another government report on the drug crisis may not seem worth mentioning, but the assessment is not just any report.
And yet, with the drug crisis at its worst, the country’s premier drug law enforcement agency has not released an updated report since March 2021 — and that report only looked at the drug trafficking situation during 2019 and the first half of 2020. Meanwhile, the drug trafficking landscape has changed dramatically, with illicitly manufactured fentanyl dominating the U.S. drug supply, resulting in a nearly 30% increase in overdose deaths.
What accounts for the delay of such a critical report at such a critical time? While a change in administrations almost always results in some disruption to agency business, the two-year gap in publishing the National Drug Threat Assessment represents a major blind spot for those struggling to contain the latest outbreak of synthetic drugs and perhaps reflects an effort to sweep the latest bad news under the rug.
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