The image of deadly drugs invading our streets, our schools and our homes from far-away lands, brought here by sloppy brown-skinned people who illegally cross our borders, long predates the sitting administration. Though that is a significant part of the hobby horse that this president rode to power.
There is a grain of truth in that meme, though no foreign army ever forced Americans to become addicted to any substance. They were just happy to take our money.
But, as a recent report from a panel of public health and law enforcement agencies in Utah demonstrates, the wave of addiction and death that most affects us now was, and is, American born and bred.