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A Drug Loophole Was Closed. Why Isn't It Being Enforced?

| Nov. 03, 2019

One year ago, for a brief moment, political party took a back seat to duty, and a bipartisan Congress passed and the president signed "one of the most consequential pieces of legislation" of 2018. The Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Protection Act was designed to close a loophole in a post-9/11 security law that has allowed international drug traffickers to easily ship opioids to the United States without detection — and laid out clear deadlines for doing so.

Deadlines mean something to most of us — in school, at work, or in our personal lives, they set clear dates that cannot be missed without consequences....

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Kayyem, Juliette."A Drug Loophole Was Closed. Why Isn't It Being Enforced?" The Boston Globe, November 3, 2019.

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Juliette Kayyem

  • Member of the Board, Belfer Center
  • Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security, Harvard Kennedy School
  • Faculty Director, Homeland Security Project
  • Faculty Affiliate, Middle East Initiative
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