A new intensity that will likely mean more aggressive efforts by federal prosecutors to throw the book at drug offenders, carrying out Sessions' order to "use every tool we have" to crack down. Communities long scarred by decades of drug war policing will see more disruption, and more families will be torn apart. Prisons already overcrowded with drug offenders will become more packed with people who belong in treatment and diversion programs instead. Taxpayers will be on the hook to pay for Sessions' ruinous intentions.