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Ortagus: America's silent national security threat - opioids
1 month ago | By Boston Herald
Over the last decade, a superpower has quietly invaded a peaceful country and killed hundreds of thousands of its citizens. The superpower isn't Russia, and the victims aren't Ukrainians. The weapons of war aren't conventional weapons, they're chemical weapons. The culprit is China, and the death toll is that of our fellow Americans.
The United States has been flooded with synthetic fentanyl and other opioids from China. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last week that 71,200 Americans died of overdoses of these drugs in 2021.
This poison has destroyed families...
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