# 78

Two senators sponsor bill aimed at main source of Fentanyl: China; through the US Mail!

Below article provides a path designed to reduce the illicit availability of Fentanyl, to Drug dealers, entering the US from China.  Goal of the bill is to reduce fatalities resulting from the powerful opioid.

"That's why we introduced new, bipartisan legislation -- the Synthetic Trafficking and Overdose Prevention Act, or the STOP Act -- to simply close the loophole and require the postal service to obtain advance electronic data on packages before they cross our borders.

Based on expert testimony at hearings at the Senate Homeland Security Committee, this simple policy change would make it easier for our customs agents and the DEA to detect packages containing fentanyl or synthetic drugs to help keep this poison out of our country.

Our bill would take away a key tool of drug traffickers and restrict the supply of these drugs, raising their price and making them harder to get."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/21/opinions/china-mails-synthetic-heroin-portman-klobuchar/index.html