The White House said Tuesday it plans to crack down on illicit fentanyl traffickers by ramping up sanctions on anyone who uses the U.S. financial system to push the deadly synthetic opioid.
The administration said it would wield sanctions as part of a broad pledge to work more closely with international partners and U.S. law enforcement agencies in disrupting fentanyl supply chains and identifying parts, such as die molds, used to press the drug into pills.
Illicit fentanyl has bedeviled multiple administrations since it began to flood the drug market in the middle of the last decade. The White House said other types of drugs dominated the drug supply not long ago, including plant-based drugs such as heroin and cocaine and illicit synthetic stimulants, namely methamphetamine.
It outlined its efforts as Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sends members of his cabinet to Washington this week to discuss joint efforts on fentanyl trafficking. The administration, in its statement Tuesday, reiterated a call for Congress to list illicit fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs so everyone knows they have a high risk of abuse and that offenses are subject to harsh penalties.
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