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Fentanyl from China and Mexico is killing 70,000 Americans per year, yet Democrats say the GOP must vote on Thursday for their migration expansion bill if they want to save Americans from the deadly drug epidemic.
“The American people are smart — they understand hypocrisy when they see it, they understand cynicism when they see it.” Texas Sen. John Conyers told the reporters. He added: Fatal overdoses in D.C., Maryland and Virginia are in keeping with the national increase in opioid fatalities, which until recently primarily claimed the lives of adults. In 2022, 45 teens succumbed to opioids locally, a number roughly equal to the previous three years combined, data show. And incomplete data for 2023 show no sign of the crisis abating in young people.
“The number of individual pills containing fentanyl seized by law enforcement was 2,300 times greater in 2023 compared to 2017,” the National Institutes of Healthon May 13. More than 115 million pills were seized in 20-23, compared to 50,000 pills in 2017, and 5 million in 2020, the report said.
“Last week I did a fentanyl roundtable and I had parents here that lost their kids,” Sen. Rick Scott told reporters on Wednesday;
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