U.S. drug agency to ask Congress to classify illicit fentanyl like heroin

Illicit chemical knock-offs of the extremely potent opioid fentanyl would be put permanently in the same legal class as heroin to boost prosecutions of traffickers and makers of the drugs, under a proposal to be unveiled on Tuesday by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

from Reuters: U.S. https://reut.rs/2Z5hbDi