DEA Opens Fentanyl Testing Lab as Drug Ravages American Communities

An officer from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Trade and Cargo Division finds Oxycodone pills in a parcel at John F. Kennedy Airport's US Postal Service facility in New York on June 24, 2019. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images

The Drug Enforcement Administration opened a fentanyl lab on the U.S.-Mexico border as it warns of the Mexican drug cartels’ global reach.

The agency is accelerating its efforts to curtail the out-of-control fentanyl epidemic that has swept the United States and expanding far beyond America’s borders.