Money, money, money: Big profits drive cartels’ fixation on fentanyl
Less work to produce and easy to smuggle, and a small amount can create big high
By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times - Friday, February 24, 2023
Fentanyl was created in the 1960s to treat pain in cancer patients and others.
Yet over the past decade, an illicit form has shown up in the U.S. drug supply as Mexican cartels convert precursor chemicals, often from China, into synthetic opioids and mix them with other drugs.
Fentanyl made in clandestine labs has proved highly deadly and is increasingly found in a range of drugs other than heroin, including cocaine and fake prescription pills.
Still, it raises the question: Why would suppliers be willing to kill some of their customers?
It all comes down to money.
Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl are “cheaper to produce, don’t rely upon the climate, can’t be spotted, and are easier to smuggle,” said Regina LaBelle, who served as director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy during President Biden’s first year in office. “All in all, then, it’s a better product for drug trafficking cartels and they may assume that the market will eventually adjust to this new product.”
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