More than 109,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending January 2023, a slight increase from the previous year, according to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Wednesday…
Stacey McKenna, senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based independent think tank, said the crackdown on fentanyl and other addictive drugs could be having the opposite of the intended affect.
“There’s this iron law of prohibition that the harder you crack down on the supply, the more likely you are to get a more potent supply or a more dangerous supply,” McKenna said…