re: Why is fentanyl the drug of choice for drug dealing now?

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But....the black market pill mills are shite and cannot accurately control the distribution of fentanyl on a per-pill level.

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This is the crux of the massive increase in ODs. Dealers have been cutting naturally derived opiates for many decades but the difference is the cutting agents were almost always the smaller volume where with the extreme potency of fentanyl the cutting agent is 99% or more of the "mix". To do this properly and get uniform distribution across a batch of pills you need actual drug lab equipment like Phizer or Merck use along with routine batch analysis.

Smugglers love fentanyl due to the small volumes. A kilo makes ~50 kilos of pure heroin level dope ie 40 pounds makes a ton or more of street level dope or an incredible pile of fake Oxys.