President Biden hosted the Summit of the Global Coalition to Address Synthetic Drugs on September 24, 2024, during the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly. Since its inception in July 2023, the Global Coalition has grown to include 163 countries and 15 international organizations working together to disrupt the supply chain for fentanyl and other synthetic drugs; detect emerging drug threats; and prevent and treat through effective public health interventions.
With the Summit as a motivating force, 11 Coalition countries – Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Ghana, India, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom – announced new initiatives that will advance the work of the Coalition, including efforts to disrupt the supply chain of fentanyl and enhance public health interventions.
These 11 countries also signed a Coalition Pledge agreeing to take additional actions to regulate all relevant drugs and precursor chemicals, take needed steps to fill gaps in their own domestic authorities, expand public-private partnerships to more effectively combat the supply chain for illicit fentanyl, develop mechanisms to monitor real-time data on trends in illicit drug use, and expand access to treatment. At the Summit, President Biden called on all other Coalition countries to likewise sign this pl