A Chinese drug enforcement official on Thursday said the United States’s drug policies are more to blame for the American opioid crisis than the influx of Chinese-manufactured drugs.
Yu Haibin, a leader of the China National Narcotics Control Commission, said there’s little proof that China is the source of chemicals used in fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid. Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids killed more than 20,000 Americans in 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Instead, he suggested poor drug education, the over-prescription of pain killers and the legalization of marijuana in some states hurt enforcement efforts, The Associated Press reported.
“As many states decriminalize marijuana, the public’s attitudes and trends of thinking toward drugs will also have a bad effect,” he said.
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China says U.S. drug policies, not Chinese-manufactured drugs, are to blame for the opioid crisis https://t.co/wDCC4dQ248 pic.twitter.com/VtfAjSwiWN
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