The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is slated to discuss illicit fentanyl trafficking.
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates, from January 2021 to January 2022, roughly 71,000 Americans died of drug overdoses involving synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. In January 2023, the U.S. sanctioned three fentanyl traffickers as a part of a larger effort to impede the fentanyl supply chain.
The committee will hear testimony from witnesses including Todd Robinson, assistant secretary of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the U.S. Department of State; Anne Milgram, administrator at the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Department of Justice; and Rahul Gupta, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy at the Executive Office of the President.
The event is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. ET.
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