It's May 12th, you're listening to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm your host and former CIA officer Brian Dean Wright.

Your morning intel starts now.

The brief you're about to hear is in the same spirit of the actual President's Daily Brief,

which is a top secret summary of the most critical events in the past 24 hours, all delivered

to the President each day by the nation's spy masters.

And so ladies and gentlemen, I am your spy and this is your brief.

Today, it's a special brief.

That's because the US government announced yesterday that if you're between the ages

of 18 and 45, there's one thing that's killing your generation more than any other.

And that's fentanyl.

That is a drug and it's setting records for the death that it's leaving behind.

And so today we're going to do a deep dive into what this killer drug is, who's peddling

it and whether we can stop it.

That's up next on this special edition of the President's Daily Brief.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday released some very sobering data.

Drug overdoses killed more than 107,000 Americans last year.

And that I'm sorry to say is a record.

It's up 15% from the last year.

To think of it differently, that averages to one person dead of an overdose every 5 minutes.

And that means that overdoses are now the leading cause of death in adults age 18 to 45.

That's more than COVID, more than car accidents, more than cancer, more than suicide.

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