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This photo taken Feb. 19, 2019, shows Emily Lockhart, a senior forensic chemist at the Drug Enforcement Administration's Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va., with a bag of crystal methamphetamine. (Jack Gruber/USA Today via AP)

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FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2015 file photo, Chief of Police Thomas Synan Jr., of the Newtown Police Department, speaks to the media at the scene of a traffic stop arrest in Newtown, Ohio. As President Donald Trump heads to Ohio to focus on the new tax overhaul, some would like to hear more about his plans to fight drug overdoses. Synan Jr says he found Trump’s comments on opioids in his State of the Union address to be more strong words without strong actions. But a police union leader says he believes Trump was spot-on about the scope of the problem.(AP Photo/John Minchillo)

In drug crisis hotbed, hoping for action on Trump’s words

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Police officers to stop processing suspected opiates

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Authorities say that the ongoing opioid epidemic is being fueled by the mail, tracing paths from India or China right to Americans' doorsteps. (Associated Press)

Postal Service unwittingly fuels opioid epidemic by delivering foreign drugs right to U.S. doorsteps

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times