the findings of this year s world drug report make clear that the international community needs to step up its responses to cope with these challenges the opioid crisis in north america is rightly getting attention and the international community has taken action in march the commission on narcotic drugs scheduled six analogues of fentanyl including carfentanil which are contributing to the deadly toll this builds on the decision by the commission at its sixtieth session in to place two precursor chemicals used in the manufacture of fentanyl and an analogue under international control