Editorial: Haven’t we learned yet? Harsher penalties won’t save us from fentanyl
Who made fentanyl? Not the legitimate stuff that’s prescribed for post-surgical pain, but the illicit street drug that’s killing Americans at a frightening pace. It’s concocted in labs in the U.S. and Mexico, using chemicals shipped from China, India and elsewhere overseas. But in a very real sense, the co-manufacturer is U.S. criminal justice policy. The war on drugs made fentanyl — much as ...
Who made fentanyl?
Not the legitimate stuff that’s prescribed for post-surgical pain, but the illicit street drug that’s killing Americans at a frightening pace. It’s concocted in labs in the U.S. and Mexico, using chemicals shipped from China, India and elsewhere overseas.
But in a very real sense, the co-manufacturer is U.S. criminal justice policy. The war on drugs made fentanyl — much as it turned morphine into heroin and cocaine into crack.
Illicit drug makers trying to
