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I'm a foster parent dead smack in ground zero for the opioid epidemic. Believe it or not, that means you have to become an expert on everything about these drugs, especially how to help infants detox. I can say that a lot of the comments here are reasonably accurate.
But here's the full picture...
China is almost 100% run by the Triads now. For those of you who don't know who they are, just think of them as the Yakuza of China. Except if you compare the two the Yakuza look like a bunch of 11 year old schoolgirls in Hello Kitty panties. The Triads do not tolerate resistance or avoidance in any way and the people who merely irritate them are sliced open, have their entrails pulled out and piled up in their arms, and then they are dumped on the street. Being a government official does not intimidate them in any way. So they have basically bought, bullied, and blackmailed the entire system over there.
They run the factories that make the fentanyl and other upcoming synthetic opioids. They have an agreement with the Mexican Cartels to distribute their products in the Americas. The Cartels basically own several southwest cities there, especially the docks. The drugs come in just like any other product and are put in armored semis with military grade escorts for shipping to the north.
Once the drugs hit somewhere north of Mexico city they are unboxed and doses are put into tiny baggies. After this they are smuggled into the US and Canada. About 90% of that smuggling is literally guys walking it over the border in massive backpacks. Each pack can hold as many as 10,000 doses. Then the drugs are distributed.
Fentanyl was a godsend to the cartels because it took so little to make a dose equivalent to real heroin. A lot of the "heroin" sold here is just a tiny amount of fentanyl in a cutting agent that the dealer adds.
The horrible thing is that the Chinese are formulating even more powerful opioid analogs as we speak. They tested one in my area last year and it killed everyone who tried it. It was so powerful that the scientists who examined it equated it to something you could use to knock an elephant out for several days. One granule is enough to generate a high like a full dose of fentanyl.
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I'm a foster parent dead smack in ground zero for the opioid epidemic. Believe it or not, that means you have to become an expert on everything about these drugs, especially how to help infants detox. I can say that a lot of the comments here are reasonably accurate.
But here's the full picture...
China is almost 100% run by the Triads now. For those of you who don't know who they are, just think of them as the Yakuza of China. Except if you compare the two the Yakuza look like a bunch of 11 year old schoolgirls in Hello Kitty panties. The Triads do not tolerate resistance or avoidance in any way and the people who merely irritate them are sliced open, have their entrails pulled out and piled up in their arms, and then they are dumped on the street. Being a government official does not intimidate them in any way. So they have basically bought, bullied, and blackmailed the entire system over there.
They run the factories that make the fentanyl and other upcoming synthetic opioids. They have an agreement with the Mexican Cartels to distribute their products in the Americas. The Cartels basically own several southwest cities there, especially the docks. The drugs come in just like any other product and are put in armored semis with military grade escorts for shipping to the north.
Once the drugs hit somewhere north of Mexico city they are unboxed and doses are put into tiny baggies. After this they are smuggled into the US and Canada. About 90% of that smuggling is literally guys walking it over the border in massive backpacks. Each pack can hold as many as 10,000 doses. Then the drugs are distributed.
Fentanyl was a godsend to the cartels because it took so little to make a dose equivalent to real heroin. A lot of the "heroin" sold here is just a tiny amount of fentanyl in a cutting agent that the dealer adds.
The horrible thing is that the Chinese are formulating even more powerful opioid analogs as we speak. They tested one in my area last year and it killed everyone who tried it. It was so powerful that the scientists who examined it equated it to something you could use to knock an elephant out for several days. One granule is enough to generate a high like a full dose of fentanyl.