Chinese suppliers are providing both raw fentanyl and the ‘machinery’ necessary for the assembly-line production of the drug
If a particular batch has two milligrams of fentanyl per pill, approximately 500,000 counterfeit pills can be manufactured from one kilogram of pure fentanyl.
“For the cartels, why wait for a field of poppies to grow and harvest if you can get your hands on the precursor chemicals and cook a batch of fentanyl in a lab?”
China is a global source of illicit fentanyl and other [new psychoactive substances] because the country’s vast chemical and pharmaceutical industries are weakly regulated and poorly monitored.
another problem is that the counterfeiters use pill presses that are the shape of other drugs that people abuse.
So they think they have Xanax, for example and instead they have fentanyl. They take three and die.
Thank you, exactly what I needed to know.