President Donald Trump has designated fentanyl — a strong opioid painkiller that is widely used in medical settings — as a weapon of mass destruction in what could be a major escalation in his administration's efforts to topple the Venezuelan government.
Speaking in the Oval Office Monday during a ceremony to award a long-dormant medal to soldiers and marines who've been deployed along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of his administration's immigration crackdown, Trump acknowledged that the medication is "very important for medicine, for anesthesia [and][various other things."
