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Protecting communities through increased enforcement and stronger measures to prevent fentanyl production and distribution.
DEA leads the fight to protect American lives and communities from the devastating impact of fentanyl. Our mission is clear and rooted in decisive action: dismantling the cartels responsible for manufacturing and trafficking this deadly poison, breaking their command and control networks, disrupting the illicit financial systems that sustain them, and cutting off the supply before it reaches our neighborhoods. DEA is relentlessly driving toward a Fentanyl Free America, committed to eliminating the poison behind the nation’s deadliest drug crisis and securing a safer, healthier future for all Americans.