Synthetic opioids like fentanyl and its analogs have fueled a surge of overdose deaths, devastating communities across the United States. More than 200 people in the United States—parents, neighbors, friends—die from opioid-related overdoses each day.¹ This crisis represents one of the most serious public safety and public health challenges of our time.

This crisis has placed a significant burden on U.S. law enforcement agencies, from local, state, campus, tribal, and territorial agencies focused on taking the drugs off the streets, to federal agencies focused on preventing the drugs from getting to the United States in the first place. In addition, public health authorities, medical providers, social services, and academic institutions are focused on keeping users alive.