Opinion | China Should Rejoin the U.S. in the Opioid Crisis

In recent years illicit drugs such as fentanyl have killed hundreds of thousands of people and caused millions more to suffer world-wide.

As a physician, I have treated people poisoned by these drugs in half a dozen states over the past 25 years. While clandestinely produced drugs such as fentanyl hardly ever leave China in their final form, precursor chemicals for these drugs often are imported by criminals from China to Mexico, where lethal synthetic drugs are produced and trafficked to countries across the globe, including the U.S.