Foreign affairs; America struggles with Fentanyl

本日の話題

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/mexico/why-america-struggling-stop-fentanyl-epidemic?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=twofa&utm_campaign=Why%20America%20Is%20Struggling%20to%20Stop%20the%20Fentanyl%20Epidemic&utm_content=20230519&utm_term=FA%20This%20Week%20-%20112017

冒頭文
The United States is suffering the deadliest drug epidemic in its history. 〈過剰摂取〉 claimed the lives of more than 100,000 Americans between August 2021 and August 2022 alone. Over the span of just a few years, drug deaths have doubled. Most of these overdoses involve fentanyl, which now kills around 200 Americans every day.

USでフェンタニルの過剰摂取による死者が多数出ており、それをどうするか法的にも外交的にも揉めてるという話。

今日はクイズ形式にしてみた。

Since all fentanyl used in the United States is produced abroad, 【　流れを食い止める　】 the drug into the country is essential as well.

So far, such supply-side efforts have 〈実施する〉 aground.

【さらにいえば】, when regulators ban or restrict synthetic opioids or their ingredients, producers simply 〈微調整する〉 their recipes.

The Mexican government, too, has 〈引き摺り出す〉 law enforcement cooperation with the United States.
 

 以下、順次回答

〈Overdoses〉過剰摂取、オーバードーズ
【stemming the flow of】流れを止める
　　stem (n)幹、茎　(v)止める、堰き止める、調整する
〈run〉
【What is more】
〈tweak〉ひねる、つねる、微調整する
〈eviscerated〉(内臓などを)引き摺り出す

…run、深い。