The backdrop for their alarm is an increase in fatal drug overdoses during the Covid pandemic that has refused to abate. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that illegal drugs killed 110,000 people last year, most of it driven by illicit fentanyl. Emergent BioSolutions, the maker of the opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan, sponsored the forum. Here are three takeaways from the event, moderated by POLITICO’s Megan Messerly: Some Democrats still want to throw the book at dealers Progressives see a direct line between the war on drugs and mass incarceration and have pushed Democrats to legalize drugs,...