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HALT Fentanyl Act Makes Permanent the Class-wide Scheduling of Fentanyl-Related Substances to Help Law Enforcement Keep Lethal Poison off our Streets

Congressman Nick Langworthy today voted in favor of the HALT Fentanyl Act, a critical piece of legislation he co-sponsored that will help keep deadly fentanyl off our streets. The bill passed the House with a bipartisan vote of 289-133.

H.R.467 would make the temporary class-wide scheduling order for fentanyl-related substances permanent, ensuring law enforcement has the tools they need to keep these lethal drugs from proliferating on our streets. The bill also ensures practitioners can research fentanyl-related substances so we can better understand their overall effects on people’s health. If the emergency class-wide scheduling order expires, many fentanyl-related substances will become street-legal and law enforcement will lose the authority to seize them. Drug traffickers would have the ability to skirt federal law by changing as little as one molecule in the fentanyl formula to create legal variations. The DEA has made the permanent scheduling of fentanyl-related substances their top legislative priority.

“Fentanyl poisonings are the leading cause of death for Americans 18-49 and we have a duty to stop this deadly poison from openly flowing into our country,” said Congressman Nick Langworthy. “Fentanyl is being manufactured in hundreds of thousands of chemical plants in China where it is being brought across our open border by the cartels. We must get serious about this incredibly lethal drug that is murdering our citizens and destroying communities. I urge the Senate and President Biden to ensure this critical legislation becomes law—it will save lives.”

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