State officials are touting efforts to fight the opioid epidemic in Illinois via the mail. The Chicago International mailing facility at O’Hare Airport is using advanced technology and K-9 units to detect opioids coming thru the mail. Governor Bruce Rauner says the drugs are often laces with fentanyl and have led to an increase in overdose deaths.
89 percent of fentanyl packages seized at the Chicago IMF were from Hong Kong and China.