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Topic: Fentanyl

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 15: U.S. President Donald Trump poses with a recently signed executive order classifying fentanyl as a "weapon of mass destruction," during a ceremony for the presentation of the Mexican Border Defense Medal in the Oval Office of the White House on December 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. During the ceremony, Trump recognized the first 13 service members to receive the recently established Mexican Border Defense Medal (MBDM), which recognizes service members supporting Customs and Border Protection on the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump: Fentanyl is a WMD

Garrett Owen
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / DON EMMERT / Spencer Platt / Michael Siluk / UCG / IkonStudio)

We can't bomb our way to fewer overdoses

Kassandra Frederique, James Saenz

Trump doesn’t grasp his own drug war

Troy Farah
Fentanyl test strip with bottle of life saving Naloxone. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Trump will make overdoses soar again

Charles LeBaron
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SAN YSIDRO, CA - MARCH 21, 2025 - - Members of the U.S. military stand in front of the border wall along the U.S. and Mexico border near San Ysidro on March 21, 2025. The U.S. Border Patrol and members of the U.S. military held a press conference to address the strengthening of the U.S./Mexico border with new barriers and concertina wire to stop the flow of migrants from entering the U.S. (Photo by Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Trump’s border war won’t stop overdoses

Melody Glenn
Donald Trump silhouette over COVID-19 spores (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s cruel calculus on public health

Claire Zagorski, Chad Sabora
A Mexican soldier stands guard next to marijuana packages outside a tunnel discovered at a warehouse in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, near the border with the US on November 26, 2010. (FRANCISCO VEGA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s war with cartels will backfire

Niko Vorobyov
Tests strips, used to detect the presence of fentanyl and xylazine in different kinds of drugs, such as cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin, lay next to a bag of heroin at St. Ann's Corner of Harm Reduction in New York City on May 25, 2023. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Overdose deaths continue to decline: CDC

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN - APRIL 06: Afghan workers work at poppy field in Kandahar, Afghanistan on April 06, 2022. Farmers demand an alternative for plantations after Taliban's ban on poppy cultivation. (Photo by Sayed Khodaiberdi Sadat/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Europe's looming overdose crisis

Niko Vorobyov
ATLANTA, GA - OCTOBER 05: A podium with the logo for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the Tom Harkin Global Communications Center on October 5, 2014 in Atlanta, Georgia. The first confirmed Ebola virus patient in the United States was staying with family members at The Ivy Apartment complex before being treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. State and local officials are working with federal officials to monitor other individuals that had contact with the confirmed patient. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

CDC warns of online pharmacy dangers

Nicole Karlis
Drug users prepare cocaine before injecting, inside of a Safe Consumption van set up by Peter Krykant on September 25, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

The drugs were never the point

Niko Vorobyov
Donald Trump | US-Mexico border fence (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump targets Mexico for "invasion"

Heather Digby Parton
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Carrie Hankins, of Jefferson County Public Health, holds a Fentanyl test strip during an event held at Lakewood Library on August 25, 2022 in Lakewood, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Lawmakers buy into fentanyl touch myth

Claire Zagorski, Ryan Marino
U. S. Senator Charles Schumer speaks while holding photo of bottle with drug Xylazine during the briefing at 875 3rd Avenue lobby in Manhattan on drug Xylazine linked to overdose deaths. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why banning this drug could backfire

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Members of the Drug Enforcement Administration raided two homes side-by-side, in an assumed illegal marijuana operation, on January 31, 2019 in Commerce City, Colorado. (RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Thanks for 50 years of nothing, DEA

Troy Farah

Opioid settlement payouts made public

Aneri Pattani - KFF Health News
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Police | Narcan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

After drug busts, drug overdoses soar

Nicole Karlis
Man standing on the edge of syringe needle (Getty Images/Boris Zhitkov)

Is "pre-addiction" really a thing?

Troy Farah
Illegal fentanyl is safely handled and contained. (Getty Images/Darwin Brandis)

Fentanyl panic mirrors crack epidemic

Ryan Hampton
Magic Mushroom (Getty Images/VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Drug science in 2023 is gonna be lit

Troy Farah
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At Lehman High School in Kyle, Texas, a poster warns about the dangers of fentanyl. Four students in the Hays Consolidated Independent School District, south of Austin, died from fentanyl overdoses in July and August. (Colleen DeGuzman/KHN)

When fentanyl came to a Texas school

Colleen DeGuzman
A small bag of straight Fentanyl on display at the State Crime Lab at the Ohio Attorney General's headquarters of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. (Ty Wright for/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

An epidemic of fentanyl misinformation

Troy Farah
A small bag of straight Fentanyl on display at the State Crime Lab at the Ohio Attorney General's headquarters of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. (Ty Wright for/ For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Rainbow fentanyl, a Halloween fright?

Joel Best - The Conversation
Rapper Kanye West speaks during his meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Cops killed George Floyd — not fentanyl

Troy Farah
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