US DEA | Counterfeit Pills Fueling U.S. Fentanyl And Opioid Crisis
* Many Chinese laboratories illicitly manufacturing synthetic drugs, such as fentanyl and their precursors, also manufacture legitimate chemicals for purchase by U.S. companies. This means that laboratories responsible for supplying fentanyl in counterfeit pills can also run legitimate businesses. Although Chinese clandestine laboratories may be contributing to the fentanyl supply, legitimate laboratories may also be sources of supply.
* Traffickers can typically purchase a kilogram of fentanyl powder for a few thousand dollars from a Chinese supplier, transform it into hundreds of thousands of pills, and sell the counterfeit pills for millions of dollars in profit. If a particular batch has 1.5 milligrams of fentanyl per pill, approximately 666,666 counterfeit pills can be manufactured from 1 kilogram of pure fentanyl
This situation really is a reverse of the 19th century
Opium Wars
initiated and lead by Britain, with US involvement.
However, will venture that few US politicians or bureaucrats have ever heard of the
Hundred Years of National Humiliation.
Will also speculate that this synthetic opioid manufacture and sale to the West has the tacit approval of the CCP.
May the gods preserve and defend me from self-righteous altruists; I can defend myself from my enemies and my friends.