The DEA recently unleashed their campaign called One Pill Can Kill. It's a new riff on an old trope that has been false for a very long time, which is like one hit and you're hooked. And so it's almost like American drug policy right now is perfectly calibrated to be producing the worst of all possible worlds. Every day people too, they're at major risk of just dying.
In this Halloween themed News Brief, we debunk the idea drug dealers are handing out fentanyl candy to our children. But we also examine why these copaganda panics are able to take hold: namely the failure of liberals to provide an alternative, non-carceral vision for how to handle the very real and urgent overdose crisis.