texas law enforcement alone has sees enough deadly fentanyl to kill every man, woman, and child in the entire united states of america. any war on drugs emerging in the key campaign issue. joe biden will never solve the fentanyl crisis. he is actively destroying our border. the stuff is just flooding in. it s affecting communities all across this country. what will it take to stop the flow of drugs into the united states? this is a red alert moment. it s punishing the drug itself really effective? what we need to assault this crisis in america. come together in bipartisan way. what is the best approach to the growing public health crisis? my guess this morning? dea administrator, anne and the entire ohio u.s. senate delegation. j.d. vance and democrat, shirt brown. a panel of experts on the front lines of this crisis. former chicago mayor, lightfoot. jen writer and dr. andrew colodny, the policy researcher collaborative at brandeis university. welcome to sunda
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abuse. that s the team that s going out there, that s responding, that s educating, that s working one-on-one, as chief rader said. but we ve got to make sure that we use every tool in our tool kit. and its soft power is much more effective than the hard power of law enforcement for this particular problem. dr. kolodny, i know the research is not fully there yet, trying to find, frankly, a drug that can help people not be addicted, right? in some form of this. is that going to be our way out of this on the demand side? well, we do have good treatments for opioid addiction. and i think to bring down overdose deaths in the short run, if we saw that people had better access to the most effective treatments and i m talking about a medication called buprenorphine. methadone maintenance can also be helpful for many people who are opioid-addicted. if opioid-addicted individuals had better access to these should that be over the counter? no, it should not be over the counter, becau
welcome back. joining me now are three guests who have been on the front lines of this fentanyl crisis and, frankly, of the drug-overdose crisis for some time. former chicago mayor lori lightfoot. she s been a prosecutor, as well, before that. dr. andrew kolodny, a medical director of the opioid policy research collaborative and president of physicians for responsible opioid prescribing. and jan rader, the former fire chief in huntington, west virginia, and director of the huntington mayor s council of public health and drug control policy. welcome to all of you. i m going to start with the former elected official here. you ve been on the front lines, a prosecutor. it s touched your own family with your brother. where are we today versus where we were in the 90s? well, look, i think the good news coming out of chicago is that we are really focused on harm reduction and treatment. we have decades of evidence, as you indicated earlier in the show, that the war on drugs is not a succ