On Sunday, Biden’s administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency, Anne Milgram, sounded the alarm on fentanyl-laced products plaguing the nation. She said nefarious Chinese actors are sending chemicals to Mexican drug cartels to make the synthetic drug and the cartels are mass producing fentanyl-laced products as well as trafficking them into the U.S.
“Right now those chemicals are largely sourced from China, they’re going to the Mexican criminal drug cartels that are then mass producing, often at an industrial scale, fentanyl,” Milgram explained. “Tiny, tiny amounts can be deadly. The CDC reports that two milligrams can be a deadly dose…the amount that could fit on the tip of your pen.”
Additionally, Milgram stressed cartels are falsely advertising fentanyl products as actual prescription drugs through a massive social media campaign. These efforts, the DEA chief warned, have reached millions of Americans.
