America has many adversaries: China, Iran, North Korea, to name a few. But perhaps America’s biggest enemy is fentanyl, a highly addictive and highly lethal synthetic opioid. In this war on fentanyl, the Senate is preparing to launch its next attack with a Friday vote on the HALT Fentanyl Act.
The Daily Signal spoke with Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Bill Cassidy, R-La., before the Senate’s vote on the HALT Fentanyl Act.
“There is no silver bullet,” to end the fentanyl epidemic, Cassidy, the lead sponsor of the bill, told reporters, “but there is silver buckshot.” He presented the Halt Fentanyl Act as one of those pellets.
If signed into law, the legislation would permanently classify fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act. While fentanyl is already a controlled substance, drug…
