Mexico's Pacific port city of Manzanillo is on the front line of the fight against fentanyl a drug blamed for tens of thousands of deaths in the United States.Deaths from fentanyl overdoses in the United States rose from 69,000 in 2020 to 110,000 in 2022, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Dr. Rahul Gupta, is visiting West Virginia this week to discuss local and national efforts in addressing the overdose epidemic.
Police in Ho Chi Minh City on April 28 announced that they have cracked down a ring that brought raw materials from Europe to make synthetic drugs in Vietnam.
Border guards in the north-central province of Thanh Hoa said on April 27 that they have arrested two Lao nationals for transporting 15,000 pills of synthetic drugs into Vietnam.