Udover artiklen er pissefed, så er der en rigtig god forklaring på, hvorfor fentanyl træder mere ind på markedet nu.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a46918/heroin-mexico-el-chapo-cartels-don-winslow/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=diggCitat:
Just as this mess was heating up, a new drug—actually an old drug—entered the scene. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is thirty to fifty times as strong as heroin. It was developed in 1960 by Janssen Pharmaceuticals (now a division of Johnson & Johnson) as a treatment for the severe pain caused by terminal cancer.
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For the narcos, the advantages of fentanyl over heroin are enormous.
First of all, it's made in a lab, so you don't need fields of poppies that can be raided, fumigated, or seized. You don't need hundreds of campesinos to harvest your crop and you don't need to take or control territory. (Well, not territory for cultivation—you still have to control access to smuggling turf, hence the renewed violence in Baja, where the murder rate has tripled.)
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On the American side, the rise of splinter groups makes it all the harder for law enforcement to track and intercept the drug. We'll no longer know where's it coming from, and worse, what's in it. First responders will not be able to tell if they're dealing with pure heroin, heroin laced with fentanyl, pure fentanyl, fentanyl cut with God knows what … there will be pharmacological chaos.
We talk about the heroin epidemic.
Fentanyl will be the plague.
Som sagt, virkelig god artikel. Læs den hele!