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DEA allowed staggering amounts of fentanyl to hit streets and took no action, records show

DEA allowed staggering amounts of fentanyl to hit streets and took no action, records show
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Even as it battled the deadliest drug epidemic in American history, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico between 2023 and 2025, according to three current and former DEA agents and government records reviewed b...

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