US Declares 'Fentanyl' A Weapon Of Mass Destruction

US Declares 'Fentanyl' A Weapon Of Mass Destruction https://ift.tt/UfMn0Fb #NDLEA #China #Canada #Mexico #Trump #US ©December 15th, 2025 ®December 16, 2025 12:13 am President Donald Trump of the United States has signed an executive order, declaring and classifying fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, WMD, saying, there is no bomb that kills people more than the illicit-drug, in a nationwide address on Monday, President Trump said fentanyl kills between 200 and 300 thousands of people annually in the United States, hence the classification of the illicit-drug as a weapon of mass destruction, the statement maybe inline with research findings that have recommended fentanyl as the number one cause of high rates of overdose deaths, specifically, according to an Independent Research Institute in the US, the Brookings Institution, in a research conducted in 2024, indicated that 527,344 Americans have died from opioid overdoses since 2012, the year fentanyl started entering the US illicit drug market and more than 100,000 people died from drug overdose annually since 2021 with fentanyl being the number one main cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45 since 2021, and the White House in a statement a few minutes ago, said, the President Trump Executive Order on Fentanyl directs the US Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury to pursue appropriate actions against relevant assets and financial institutions for those involved in or supporting the manufacture, distribution, and sale of illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals, adding that; "President Trump imposed tariffs to deal with Mexico, Canada and China’s failure to address the flow of poisonous fentanyl and other drugs into our country, authorized military strikes to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats, and disrupt the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people". #OsazuwaAkonedo