Not just ineffective, incompetent. They've ignored pursuing policies that focus across the spectrum of illicit drug use and instead implement hamfisted solutio

Not just ineffective, incompetent. They've ignored pursuing policies that focus across the spectrum of illicit drug use and instead implement hamfisted solutions to problems only when they've grown so bad that legislators have to intervene. Often thier approach, purely from a law enforcement perspective, is interdiction and supression. To them drug abuse is a criminal problem which can only be solved by aggressive policing, confiscations, and arrests. Now I hear that dealers in the US are cutting opioids sold to PWID with Xylazine which is highly destructive to tissue. There is no healthcare system to speak of available to the addicts so they don't end up in healthcare until their wounds have become gangrenous. It's no wonder an enforcement agency fails in this area because their mission is not to provide care and rehabilitation to criminals. Drug trafficking is supply and demand, maybe they should realize focusing on only half the problem isn't going to be a comprehensive solution.