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October 30, 2025
Public Health Threats and Pandemics
Fentanyl and the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
Opioid addiction has become one of the United States’ biggest killers, endangering public health, the economy, and national security. But closing the floodgates on fentanyl poses a significant foreig…
January 3, 2026
Venezuela
The U.S. Military Campaign Targeting Venezuela and Nicolás Maduro: What to Know
The U.S. military has launched a campaign that it says targets illegal drug trafficking in the Caribbean, but the reported capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has intensified scrutiny over th…
November 21, 2025
Drug Policy
How Does Fentanyl Reach the United States?
President Trump has imposed punitive measures on several countries in the name of curbing what he characterizes as high fentanyl flows into the United States. In reality, supplies of the drug—and rel…
July 20, 2023
Global Health Program
Reporting on Fentanyl and the Opioid Crisis
Vanda Felbab-Brown, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discusses policies aimed at ending the opioid crisis, challenges to stopping the flow of fentanyl across borders, and how this affects …
May 18, 2018
Drug Policy
Understanding the Opioid Epidemic
Speakers examine the growing opioid epidemic in the United States and compare global responses to opioid addiction, discuss the effects on the U.S. economy and labor force, and explore potential medi…
November 9, 2017
Health Policy and Initiatives
The Growing U.S. Opioid Crisis: Lessons From Around the World
Speakers discuss the growing opioid epidemic in cities across the United States, the influx of inexpensive heroin and potent synthetics such as fentanyl, and the lessons the United States can learn f…
