Fentanyl: Fighting the Mass Poisoning of America and the Cartel Behind It

The Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech invites you to join the Honorable John Tien, former deputy secretary of Homeland Security and a Nunn School Distinguished Professor of the Practice, and Jake Braun, Tien’s former Senior Counselor for Policy and former Acting Principal Deputy National Cyber Director, for a fireside chat. They will discuss Braun’s newest book, which details the development of the first-ever U.S. strategy to dismantle the Sinaloa Cartel and its network of Chinese chemical suppliers.

In Fentanyl: Fighting the Mass Poisoning of America and the Cartel Behind It (Bloomsbury Academic 2025), Braun reveals the inside story of how the U.S. built a secret campaign to fight the deadliest crisis in modern history. As reported in the journal Science, the subsequent drop in fentanyl-related incidents was largely due to these enforcement efforts.