The House has passed bipartisan legislation aimed at cracking down on fentanyl. The bill approved Thursday permanently reclassifies analogs of the synthetic opioid fentanyl as Schedule I drugs,

Congress handed President Donald Trump a victory in his administration’s fight against the fentanyl epidemic with the passage of legislation imposing steep penalties on smugglers caught moving fentanyl analogs into or throughout the United States.

The Republican-sponsored HALT Fentanyl Act, a bill cracking down on fentanyl and related substances, passed the House in a bipartisan 321-104 vote Thursday.

The US Congress on Thursday passed a bill imposing harsher penalties on fentanyl traffickers, with lawmakers from both parties anxious to crack down on an opioid that has driven an epidemic of deadly overdoses.

The US Congress passed a bill for harsher penalties on fentanyl traffickers, with lawmakers from both parties anxious to crack down on the opioid epidemic.