President Donald Trump has long been touting tariffs as a way to disrupt the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. and this week, he took action with a 10 percent tariff on goods imported from China. But will they really help in the fight to crack down on fentanyl?

Americans consume more illicit drugs per capita than anyone else in the world. While the rate of fentanyl overdose deaths dipped a bit recently, it's still soared over the last decade. Trump tried tariffs to combat fentanyl in his first term.