Lawmakers Consider Tough New Penalties For Opioid Crimes, Bucking Trend
A bipartisan team of lawmakers has been drafting a bill that would create tough new penalties for people who sell and distribute synthetic opioid drugs blamed for a steep rise in U.S. overdoses.
For nearly four years now, an unusual coalition of Republicans and Democrats has worked to reduce mandatory prison terms for many federal drug crimes.
But that bipartisan movement may be shallower than it appears. Indeed, Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who both supported a cut-back on some drug punishments, are preparing a bill that would create tough
