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President to outline get-tough plan, other opioids measures in New Hampshire visit

Opioid traffickers to face death penalty, minimum sentences under Trump crackdown


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By —— Bio and Archives March 19, 2018

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President Trump on Monday plans to direct the Justice Department to seek the death penalty for opioid traffickers in certain cases and urge Congress to make it easier to impose mandatory minimum sentences on people who sell fentanyl or other drugs that can be deadly in trace amounts. Mr. Trump will push the get-tough measures as part of a broad strategy to combat opioid abuse, including the start of a nationwide campaign to highlight the dangers of drug abuse and a push to slash the number of prescription opioid fills by one-third within three years. -- Mpre...



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