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KCII News spoke with Senator Chuck Grassley about what Iowans should know about the Fentanyl problem in our state. Here’s how the Senator described the issue “Well, it’s killed somewhere between three hundred and four hundred Iowans. Seventy thousand nationwide. It’s coming into the country from Mexico. The ingredients come from China to Mexico. The cartels of Mexico are making a lot of money off of it. The reason it can get into the country is because the President is not enforcing the laws at the border. He believes in an open border, and it would be one thing if, for humanitarian reasons, you want people to come into America to have a better life, and to work here, because we need workers, that’s one thing. But when you do, I see it as a life-or-death issue. So fentanyl comes in with that because the border isn’t being enforced, so seventy thousand people die.” The leading cause of overdose deaths in America, fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that’s 50 times stronger than heroin and up to 100 times stronger than morphine. The majority of fentanyl-related deaths are accidental because counterfeit prescription pills are being laced with lethal doses.