Fentanyl, Inc.
How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
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Ben Westhoff
A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it.
“A whole new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape,” writes Ben Westhoff. “These are known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and they include replacements for known drugs like heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. They are synthetic, made in a laboratory, and are much more potent than traditional drugs” - and all-too-often tragically lethal.
Drugs like fentanyl, K2, and Spice - and those with arcane acronyms like 25i-NBOMe - were all originally conceived in legitimate laboratories for proper scientific and medicinal purposes. Their formulas were then hijacked and manufactured by rogue chemists, largely in China, who change their molecular structures to stay ahead of the law, making the drugs’ effects impossible to predict. Westhoff has infiltrated this shadowy world. He tracks down the little-known scientists who invented these drugs and inadvertently killed thousands, as well as a mysterious drug baron who turned the law upside down in his home country of New Zealand.
Westhoff visits the shady factories in China from which these drugs emanate, providing startling and original reporting on how China’s vast chemical industry operates, and how the Chinese government subsidizes it. Poignantly, he chronicles the lives of addicted users and dealers, families of victims, law enforcement officers, and underground drug awareness organizers in the US and Europe. Together they represent the shocking and riveting full anatomy of a calamity we are just beginning to understand. From its depths, as Westhoff relates, are emerging new strategies that may provide essential long-term solutions to the drug crisis that has affected so many.
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The author’s transition in the different aspects of the drug epidemic were all encompassing. He goes into the difficulties of controlling these substances and the nuances of the designer drugs (Novel psychoactive substances, or NPS) coming from China. He delves into the legislature and the history of drugs leading up to the situation where we find ourselves today. The politics of drugs astounds me. In China, for example, it’s highly illegal to use these drugs, but the government turns a blind eye to the companies tweaking these substances because the exports are mostly going to the US and because the nation is making so much money off of it.
His point of view is very factual and he balances on the razor’s edge with no judgment within the discussion of how to deal with the issue and how to take care of drug users by providing them “safe” drugs (such as traditional substances like LSD, rather than synthetic chemicals) if they choose to use them rather than forbidding everything and thus forcing users into this dangerous world of new substances which could have cataclysmic effects. I appreciate the scientific viewpoint of drugs and their effects. He explains how almost everything is now laced with fentanyl, and how customers are now getting drugs which are falsely labeled without knowing what exactly they are taking. I found it mind blowing that if you were to walk into an abandoned fentanyl factory, then you would likely die of an overdose within minutes. Another highly interesting fact for me was that many heroin users are drawn to fentanyl when overdoses happen because it means the high must have been better. This is extremely counter-intuitive since the customers are likely to die, but the dealers then appeal to more users.
Aside from the history of drugs and today’s market, I admired the author detailing how to get drugs checked and the companies offering these services. The author also explores how other countries tackle the issue by using supervised injection sites or, in the case of New Zealand, highly restrictive legal outlets. Unfortunately, the US often does not allow independent drug testing organizations at music festivals because they don’t want to admit that drugs are being consumed. Other countries go as far as offering prescription grade heroin or therapies such as methadone to users who have failed all other treatment options. This has proven to cut down on overdoses and crime throughout those countries.
I highly recommend this book to everyone to better understand the difficulties drug user face and to get a more well rounded view of what the world looks like as these synthetic substances threaten to topple entire economies.
all encompassing view of thr Global drug pandemic
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