DEA Chief Warns Congress: Illicit Drugs Are As Easy To Get As Pizza Delivery From Uber Eats
DEA Administrator Anne Milgram told Congress this week that social media and other technology have made it easier than ever to buy illegal drugs. She compared these transactions to ordering food on Uber Eats.
“We say all the time that the most dangerous place in the world right now is our homes because everyone has a smartphone, and within two or three clicks on a smartphone, people are having pills delivered to their front doorstep like Uber Eats, like they get pizza delivered,” Milgram told a House Appropriations subcommittee.
“According to the CDC, in 2022, 107,941 Americans lost their lives. Forty-two percent of Americans in the United States now know someone who has died,” Milgram said in her opening statement. “We’re losing 22 Americans, teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18, every single week right now” to illegal drug use.