LAS VEGAS — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump must make fighting fentanyl a priority, recovery experts and swing-state law-enforcement officials tell The Post.
Close to 300 Americans are daily fatalities from illegal doses of the opioid, federal officials said in May. The synthetic painkillers — almost always originating in China — have flooded across the country’s southern border in recent years.
Wednesday was National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day, established to call attention to the crisis.
Swing states, including North Carolina, Michigan, Virginia and Arizona, each had more than 1,000 fentanyl-related deaths in 2023, an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drug-death data shows.
