It's November 4th, your listening to the President's Daily Brief.

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

Your morning intel starts now.

First up, the CDC announced a couple of months ago that if you are an American between the

ages of 18 and 45, there is one thing that is killing your generation more than any other,

and that's drug overdoses, especially by fentanyl.

We are going to do a deep dive into how this drug starts in China, transits into Mexico,

and ends up in your hometown.

And we're going to do this today so that you can decide, as you vote next week, which

politician or party is more likely to do something about this terrible killer.

And after our main brief this morning, we are going to wrap up the podcast with a question

from Pat out of Seattle, Washington, who is hearing rumors that Ukraine's wheat isn't

getting to pour countries around the world like we were told it would.

But first, let's get started with today's main brief.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention released some very sobering data a couple

months back.

The drug overdoses killed more than 107,000 Americans last year.

That is a record, up 15% from 2020.

To think of that differently, it's more people than the number of US military personnel

killed during the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam combined.

That means folks that overdoses are now the leading cause of death in adults in America,

age 18 to 45.

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