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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joshua Goodman and Jim Mustian

DEA shutting down two offices in China even as agency struggles to stem flow of fentanyl chemicals

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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is shutting down two of its hard-won offices in China, The Associated Press has learned, a move that comes even as the agency struggles to disrupt the flow of precursor chemicals from the country that have fueled a fentanyl epidemic blamed for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

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