President Joe Biden will use his second State of the Union address to announce a renewed federal effort to combat the illicit fentanyl trade that has made opioid overdoses a leading cause of death among young Americans in recent years.
Mr Biden’s speech to a joint session of Congress comes as the new House Republican majority has taken aim at his administration’s immigration policies, which they claim have permitted trafficking across the US-Mexico border to flourish at the cost of Americans’ lives.
