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US, Georgia experiencing spike in opioid-related overdose deaths as drugs flood southern border
Overdose deaths in Georgia and across the U.S. have increased dramatically in the last two years.
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Opioid crisis worsens in Georgia as rival cartels double down on distribution: 'Cartels increasingly target children and young people'
The crisis at the southern border of the United States continues to be driven by the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels, according to analysts and US border officials, fueling an opioid crisis whose death toll is still climbing. As competition for market share intensifies, fentanyl has become an increasingly profitable export–both more potent and easier to produce than heroin.
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Criminals exploit southern border chaos to smuggle fentanyl into US: 'This is a crisis'
President Joe Biden continues to push for an open border policy that critics claim could exasperate the nation's opioid problem.
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Biden pushes for open border while drug-related deaths, crime rates rise in Georgia: 'Supplies of tainted pills ... have escalated'
Marc Thiessen, an opinion columnist for The Washington Post, recently attributed the surge in U.S. crime and drug abuse to President Joe Biden's open border policy.