![]() ![]() ![]() “The Mexicans figured out how to make it in Mexico. When Beijing announced a ban in 2019, Chinese chemical companies began selling them the precursors needed to make the potent painkiller. Meth allowed them to make their own drugs, not rely on criminals from other countries.” At first, Mexican drug traffickers imported fentanyl from China. Up to then, they “had always been the errand boys for Colombians. Thanks to it, Mexican drug traffickers embraced the synthetic drug. Methamphetamine, he recounts in The Least of Us, prepared the ground for fentanyl. That book led to another, The Least of Us, which portrays the United States “in the times of fentanyl and methamphetamine.” Journalist Sam Quinones. Sam Quinones, an investigative journalist and writer, is the great chronicler of what narcotic agencies call “the worst crisis in the history of drugs in the United States.” He looked at the opioid crisis in Dreamland, a successful National Book Award-winning book that focused on the ravages of painkillers across vast stretches of the Midwest. In other words, more than 2,000 per week. authorities, 2023 is expected to set a new record, with close to 110,000 deaths. In 2022, fentanyl caused around three-quarters of overdose deaths, and according to U.S. By the middle of the last decade - when the opioid epidemic had become an unprecedented health crisis - history took another unexpected turn: a powerful drug that few outside the operating room had heard of until then entered the scene. When that offer was curbed due to a crackdown on the use and prescription of opioids to treat chronic pain, large numbers of addicts took to the streets looking for heroin, which was cheaper and also more dangerous. ![]() Not only did the pharmaceutical companies claim that the pills would put an end to all pain once and for all, they also said they weren’t addictive. It began in the mid-1990s, when pharmaceutical companies such as Purdue aggressively upended the rules of medical marketing and flooded doctors’ offices and medicine cabinets with revolutionary pills called Oxycontin. The story of how the United States got hooked on fentanyl is a classic story of supply and demand creation. ![]()
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