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Fentanyl’s rapid clearance from the body allows workers to pass initial tests—leaving offices, warehouses and job sites exposed to employees impaired by the nation’s deadliest opioid.

The 75-year-old co-founder of the Sinaloa cartel pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn courtroom—admitting to a murderous reign of trafficking, corruption and suffering that stretched across decades.

Cartel operatives detail how fentanyl-laden cars slip past border agents, fueling an annual death toll of some 50,000 Americans.

The bill closes loopholes that allowed cartels to alter fentanyl formulas, sealing the legal gaps exploited for profit and death.

Coordinated across four continents, Operation RapTor dismantled a darknet drug empire, seizing enough fentanyl to kill 71.5 million.

Uber’s delivery platform has become a loophole for traffickers to move illicit pills, weapons and cash with near-total anonymity.

America’s overdose death toll fell sharply in 2024, with fentanyl deaths down nearly 37 percent. But experts warn the crisis is far from over.

Cartels are no longer just trafficking drugs—they’re tapping pipelines, terrorizing truckers and selling stolen crude to US refiners in a billion-dollar criminal enterprise.

The DEA’s largest-ever fentanyl operation exposed cartel delivery networks mimicking Amazon—flooding American streets with pills disguised as prescription drugs.

The rapid growth of lethal synthetic opioids like protonitazene, mostly imported from China, is fueling a deadly epidemic amid plummeting heroin production.