claim: "the bulk of the problem with the opioid epidemic is the fentanyl and all the synthetic drugs coming across the southern border."
author: ron desantis
evidence_1: jan 9, 2019 ... heroin that lands here via mexican drug-trafficking organizations is ... according  to a wide-ranging dea report on pennsylvania's opioid crisis, released in  october, most of ... the synthetic opioid fentanyl takes a more circuitous route  here. ... fentanyl is also smuggled across the southern border's ports of ...
evidence_2: dec 26, 2017 ... opioid addiction in the united states has reached epidemic ... heroin and  synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, supplied by foreign-based drug cartels. .... most of  the heroin coming into the united states is cultivated on ... of a southern border  wall and additional increases to the number of .... all rights reserved.
evidence_3: mar 21, 2017 ... most of the fentanyl is being smuggled from mexico into the country “through ...  are using the ancient devices to hurl fentanyl across the mexican border. ... in  china manufacture synthetic drugs like fentanyl but the u.s. has only ... “canada  is suffering its own opioid crisis although most of their heroin comes ...
evidence_4: jun 17, 2018 ... beginning in china, one fentanyl pipeline flows through mexico and into the u.s.,  while another streams directly to the u.s. in the mail.
evidence_5: aug 31, 2017 ... washington — fentanyl, a super potent synthetic opioid at the center ... it's  flowing into the u.s. across the southern border and via the mail ... by people with  opioid addictions looking for the most potent dose on ... a few granules of the  drug can be deadly, and many customs ... but “this is all kind of new.