Trump announced the signing of the order at an event held to honor military personnel for their work defending the border with Mexico. The president declared that “there is no doubt that America’s adversaries are trafficking fentanyl into the United States, in part because they want to kill Americans.”
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, signed an executive order this Monday, December 15, to declare fentanyl, a drug that has wreaked havoc on the American population in recent years, “as a weapon of mass destruction.”
«Today I take another step to protect Americans from the scourge of deadly fentanyl that is flooding our country. With this historic executive order that I will sign today, we will formally classify fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which is what it really is,” Trump declared at an event held at the White House.
«If this were a war, it would be one of the worst wars; I think in the last five or six years between 200,000 and 300,000 people have died a year (from fentanyl). There is talk of 100,000, which is a lot of people, but the number is much higher,” explained the American president.
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Alarming numbers of deaths from opioids
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 250,000 people died between 2021 and 2023 alone from overdoses related to synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl.
Trump announced the signing of the order at an event held to honor military personnel for their work defending the border with Mexico. The president declared that “there is no doubt that America’s adversaries are trafficking fentanyl into the United States, in part because they want to kill Americans.”
The Republican highlighted that during his term, according to him, “a 50% reduction in the amount of fentanyl that crosses the border” has been achieved, and assured that China is “collaborating closely” with the US “to reduce the number and amount of fentanyl that is sent.”
«We have managed to reduce the figure to a much smaller number. “It is not satisfactory, but it will soon be,” he added.
With information from EFE
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