First responders support crackdown on fentanyl producers

Sen. Sherrod Brown, who visited Cincinnati Tuesday, is promoting a law that would punish China and any other countries that produce and export those drugs to the U.S. Brown is getting backing from Sen. Rob Portman. “China has finally agreed to back off production of fentanyl and they won’t export anymore, but we want to trust with verify," said Brown. "If they don’t, these sanctions on financial transactions and others begin to tighten more on China for breaking their word.” That's good news to local first responders who have answered 656 calls for heroin overdoses in Cincinnati this year. That's so many they can hardly remember them. “It seems like time, time has numbed us to the issue,” said EMS District Chief Cedric Robinson. “It’s still a huge issue.