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When geopolitics gets in the way of the war on drugs
The US needs China's help to contain its drug crisis, in particular the abuse of fentanyl, but bilateral tensions risk turning the war on the illegal drugs trade into yet another area of discord.
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Drug overdoses killed more than 100,000 in the US in the year-long period ending last November.
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Though overshadowed by the catastrophic death toll of the Covid-19 pandemic, America's longer-running drug epidemic continues to swing its deadly scythe through the nation nonetheless.
Drug overdoses killed more than 100,000 in the United States in the year-long period ending last November, continuing an alarming annual rise in such deaths, which more than doubled over the past six years as fentanyl poured into America.
