It is MUCH stronger than morphine...and deadly if not administered properly in measured doses.
‘Like finding a needle in a haystack’... Agents trying to stop deadly fentanyl from entering U.S.
A Senate report this year found fentanyl can be easily purchased online from overseas pharmaceutical companies, particularly those based in China...China has a vast pharmaceutical industry.
A mere kilogram of pure fentanyl can be turned into hundreds of thousands of individual doses which for obvious reasons make some experts skeptical that the surge can ever be contained.
A kilo of fentanyl bought for $3,000 to $5,000 can generate $1.5 million in revenue.
While private shippers must keep electronic data on every parcel, including the identities of the shipper and recipient, that’s not the case with the U.S. Postal Service. It must rely on other countries’ postal operations to collect that information, and today, only about 40 percent of packages that come from overseas have it.
That disparity makes it harder for the Postal Service to flag suspicious packages, the report said, and has turned government-run mail into the go-to route for fentanyl smugglers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-met-mail-order-fentanyl-20180524-story.html
I read a few months ago that it’s so powerful, that an EMT overdosed just treating someone who OD’ed on it. I guess from it being on the patients clothes or skin, that is crazy. They said just a few grains, like a sprinkle of salt from a salt shaker is enough to kill. If that doesn’t scare the crap out of people, I don’t know what does. Any nut, terrorist can take out a ton of people with just a small bag of that stuff. Look at this..This is what Nutzy Pelosi is protecting.....
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44244688