Opioid Epidemic Expert: Foreign Drug Trafficking Could Be Considered ‘Act of Terrorism’

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GILSON: "And the concept that a lot of these drugs are coming from China is something that our DEA liaisons completely support. The idea that — and one of the senators mentioned earlier — maybe they get to this country and then get rerouted into Mexico I think is also true, because in the heroin epidemic, the Mexican production went up dramatically to the point where they became the second largest heroin producer in the world. That distribution system is definitely in place and I think Fentanyl can follow the same distribution system. So I do think that these are drugs that are coming from overseas, primarily from China, and being sold in our country really almost on a basis that could be considered an act of terrorism."