We Need to Take the Fentanyl Crisis More Seriously

Most of it comes across our southwestern border, largely controlled by Mexican drug cartels.

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A homeless man, 24, smokes fentanyl in Seattle, Wash., March 12, 2022.

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The United States is in the grips of a fentanyl crisis that doesn’t get nearly the attention it deserves.

Yes, who owns Twitter matters, and what some Republicans might have texted former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows after the 2020 election is interesting, but none of this matches the significance of a hideously insidious drug devastating American communities.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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