| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | International
USA. Attorney General Jeff Sessions creates new DEA office to 'turn tide' in opioid crisis
USA. Attorney General Jeff Sessions creates new DEA office to 'turn tide' in opioid crisis
WASHINGTON – For the first time in 20 years, the Drug Enforcement Administration is opening a new field office, in an attempt to turn the tide in the worsening opioid crisis that has fueled record-setting overdose fatalities across the country.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday that the DEA's 22nd field office would be located in Louisville, Ky., part of a region plagued by the abuse of the prescription painkiller, heroin and the deadly synthetic drug fentanyl. (USA Today, 29.11.2017)