Ky Attorney General Urges U.S. Senate to Protect Kentuckians from Fentanyl

Latest effort to fight the overdose crisis in Kentucky.

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Attorney General Daniel Cameron urged the United States Senate to pass the HALT Fentanyl Act. The bipartisan legislation would permanently schedule all current and future fentanyl analogues as Schedule I drugs and equip law enforcement with additional tools to combat the drug epidemic.

“The scourge of fentanyl is the public health crisis of our lifetime,” said Attorney General Cameron. “Plain and simple: the HALT Fentanyl Act would save lives in our Commonwealth. I urge the Senate to follow the House’s lead and pass the bill immediately.”

In a letter to Senate leaders, 24 attorneys general write that “the [Biden Administration’s] response to this existential threat has been woefully deficient.”

“The fentanyl crisis has devastated many American communities, families, and lives, including those in our respective States,” the coalition writes. “This national catastrophe requires a serious federal solution,” and permanently scheduling fentanyl analogues as Schedule I drugs is a step toward that end.

This is Attorney General Cameron’s latest effort to fight the overdose crisis in Kentucky.

Last September, Attorney General Cameron urged President Biden to classify fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction. In February, he demanded Secretary of State Antony Blinken designate certain Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. And, in March he admonished the Department of Justice for their weak law enforcement response to the fentanyl crisis and offered meaningful recommendations to combat it.

Attorney General Cameron was joined by attorneys general from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming in sending today’s letter.

To read a copy of the letter, click here.