Drug agency chief calls on China and Mexico to help stem US fentanyl crisis

Anne Milgram said China has not cooperated as much as the US would like in stemming the fentanyl crises, and Mexico ‘needs to do more’. Photograph: Kevin Wolf/AP

Drug Enforcement Administration administrator Anne Milgram has called for further cooperation from China and Mexico in the fight against the US’s fentanyl crisis.

In an interview with Chuck Todd, the host of NBC’s Meet the Press, on Sunday, Milgram said that despite the DEA standing “ready to work with anyone who will work with us”, the US has “not had the cooperation that we want to have” from China, adding that the Mexican government also “needs to do more”.