Cutting government waste is a good aim, but we need a bold new vision and priorities to tackle the drug crisis.

The drug supply is constantly evolving, and some experts suggest that a “fourth wave” of the opioid epidemic is underway, in which illicit fentanyl is more frequently mixed with other drugs.

The Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office and other agencies released a health alert Tuesday for an industrial chemical known as BTMPS, which is being mixed with fentanyl ...