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The flood of fentanyl and other opioids surging into the United States from China via Mexico has long since passed the point of being a crisis. The number of drug overdose deaths registered in the country over the past two years has been unprecedented. On Tuesday, no longer able to deny the crisis, the Biden administration finally announced a plan to do something about it. They want to make the overdose \u201creversal\u201d drug naloxone available to the public over the counter. But as was pointed out at the Free Beacon<\/a> this morning, not only will this change be unlikely to reduce the number of overdoses, but it actually may increase public demand for fentanyl and other drugs, leading to the creation of even more addicts. This really shouldn\u2019t be rocket science.<\/p>\n The White House is making naloxone, a drug used to reverse opioid overdoses, available over the counter. Public health experts say the policy is not only a tacit admission that deadly opioids such as fentanyl are here to stay but could end up creating more addicts or causing more overdoses.<\/p>\n \u201cThis move doesn\u2019t address our addiction crisis in the slightest,\u201d said Dr. Keith Humphreys, a Stanford University professor who has helped craft drug policy in multiple White Houses and in the United Kingdom. \u201cYou would never say \u2018Okay, I\u2019m rolling out a new plan for cancer for the country, we\u2019re going to open a lot more hospice facilities.’\u201d<\/p>\n\n