President Donald Trump’s designation last week of fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction” gives the Drug Enforcement Administration more tools to combat the drug, agency Administrator Terry Cole said.
“It’s opening up the aperture to treat this really, you know, continuous poison that’s coming to the United States as a weapon of mass destruction,” Cole said.
Trump’s order instructs “the attorney general, the State Department, the Department of War,” and others to work together to combat the poison “coming to our country,” he added.
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