For a moment, I would
like to talk about one of those issues that is critically important to
me and really to every Member in this body that she has made a
commitment to addressing and will be able, I think, to make a big
difference; that is, the scourge of deadly forms of synthetic heroin
that are being shipped into your communities. Synthetic heroin--usually fentanyl, sometimes carfentanil--is one of
the great new threats we face in our communities. It is an example of
one of the emerging threats that the Department of Homeland Security
and its agency, Customs and Border Protection, must address. Fentanyl is up to 50 times more powerful than heroin. Carfentanil is
even stronger than that.
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