(Omaha) — Federal drug enforcement officials have launched a new public awareness campaign aimed at reducing the supply and demand for fentanyl.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration recently announced its “Fentanyl Free America” enforcement initiative and public awareness campaign in the agency’s efforts to combat the deadly threat of synthetic drugs. Dustin Gillespie is the special agent in charge of the DEA’s Omaha office, which covers five states: Iowa, Nebraska. Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Speaking on KMA’s “Morning Line” program recently, Gillespie says the campaign comes at a time when the DEA is working to fight the synthetic drug crisis across the entire supply chain of fentanyl.
“From the precursors that are coming from China, to the laboratories in Mexico, to the distribution networks and transportation networks that the cartels utilize to import it from Mexico into the United States, and then across our entire United States, including Iowa and our communities here,” said Gillespie. “So our investigations, while they may start in Iowa or in the Midwest, they inevitably take us down to the southwest border and into Mexico and across the entire globe.”…