Drug Trafficking
Battling the Cartels Requires A Refocus
In the fight to secure our nation from dangerous illicit drugs, the Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-S), based in Key West, Florida, has been waging a successful regional coalition...
Fix America’s Dangerous International Mail System
While Congress overwhelmingly enacted legislation in 2018 to curtail opioids, fentanyl, and other illegal contraband from entering the United States via the international postal system, U.S. Customs and Border Protection...
Why Putin’s War on Ukraine Is Great News for Drug Traffickers
Conflict and instability tend to benefit the illicit drugs trade. Look at Afghanistan, where opium cultivation reached unprecedented levels during the U.S.-led war, or Myanmar, which has apparently been producing...
Want to End the Fentanyl Epidemic? Get Back to Basics
In the same week that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a record 107,000 annual drug overdose deaths, a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) study reported that the...
The United States Can Counter Out of Control Captagon Smuggling
On July 1, 2020, the United States’ Syria policy received a wake-up call. At the Port of Salerno in Italy, authorities identified eighty-five million tablets of captagon, an illicit amphetamine-type drug...
National Shooting Sports Foundation Fires Back on Lawsuit from Mexican Officials
Lawmakers in Mexico filed a lawsuit against ten American gun companies in summer 2021, arguing the gun manufacturers are to blame for the devastating bloodshed south of the border. The...
Thousands of Amphetamine Pills Seized at Lebanese Port
Lebanese security forces have uncovered an attempt to smuggle nine million pills of Captagon, an amphetamine drug popular in the Middle East, through the port of Beirut. The country’s customs agency...