Hunting fentanyl: One tiny package out of millions could kill you. How do you find it?
"The central battleground in America’s war on super-potent synthetic opioids is a concrete and corrugated steel mail facility at one of the country's busiest airports," Paste BN reporter Deirdre Shesgreen wrote this week.
On this week's Cup of Politics podcast, she describes the enormous challenges faced by Customs and Border Protection officers: Sifting through a vast stream of international mail looking for a deadly toxic powder inside a few small packages.
Contact with even a few grains of fentanyl in its purest form can be fatal to the Customs workers or their drug-sniffing dogs, which makes the hunt even more perilous.
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