The New York Times (6/10, A1, Popper, Subscription Publication) reports on its front page, “As the nation’s opioid crisis worsens, the authorities are confronting a resurgent, unruly player in the illicit trade of the deadly drugs, one that threatens to be even more formidable than the cartels.” More than ever, “law enforcement officials say, the drugs are being bought online.” The Times says “the problem of dark web sales appeared to have been stamped out in 2013, when the authorities took down the most famous online marketplace for drugs, known as Silk Road,” but “countless successors have popped up, making the drugs readily available to tens of thousands of customers who would not otherwise have had access to them.” According to the story, Congress has proposed strengthening the “requirements on information gathered by the Postal Service,” with USPS officials having told a Senate hearing last month that “they were working to collect information on more packages coming from China.”
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— “The New York Times,”Nathaniel Popper, The New York Times, June 10, 2017.