Launching Missiles Is Easy, Drug Control Is Hard

In April 2022, the Biden Administration released its long-awaited blueprint to tackle the worsening U.S. drug crisis. The 2022 National Drug Control Strategy is a hefty 150 pages (by comparison, the Trump administration’s 2020 National Drug Control Strategy was only 41 pages) and outlines an ambitious plan to reduce illicit drug use and enhance public health and safety. This followed the January release of a new “Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health, and Safe Communities” between Mexico and the U.S., which marked 200 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries and a “new era in security cooperation based on partnership and guided by shared responsibility.” Each strategy reflects a more nuanced approach to foreign affairs that acknowledges the limits of American power.

These two policy statements come at a time when the U.S. and Mexico are reeling from twin public health crises. In 2021,

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