A policy response to the problem of fentanyl featured prominently in yesterday’s GOP primary debate in Miami. Ron DeSantis spoke of how the “elites in D.C. don’t give a damn about what’s going on in this country. They don’t care that we have tens of thousands of opioid deaths, that the fentanyl’s pouring in. They are not taking the type of action we need to.”
As I noted on the liveblog yesterday, one wonders whether the “elites in D.C.” include the man who was president of these United States from 2017 to 2021, when the problem of fentanyl got much worse. But more importantly than the politics, the candidates’ answers about how to solve the problem of fentanyl suggest that they aren’t taking the problem very seriously either.
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