re: Why Do Chinese Drug Makers Sell Fentanyl?

Pretty much sums up my thoughts on all of this:

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As the crackdown on prescription opioids pushes more users from the doctor’s office to the street, distributors will be drawn to new and powerful opioid substitutes with little concern for where they come from.

And therein lies a conundrum: Limiting diversion of powerful painkillers from regulated pharmaceutical channels creates new unregulated avenues for satisfying demand. In most cases these secondary avenues are more dangerous than the original ones we are trying to shut down. It’s a glaring oversight for a country that otherwise reveres the autonomous power of the “invisible hand” of the free market.

In response to China’s recent export ban of 116 research chemicals, one online poster to a research chemical forum summed up: “If there’s demand, it will be produced—legally or not. Worst thing is that from now on our stuff will come from catchy backyard labs without quality control. People will die. Way to go prohibition.”

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From Daily Beast (snippet from behind paywall)

Other than the volume thing someone mentioned above (same amount of fentanyl is 10K times stronger), I don't get why China would rather send us sketchy research chemicals than opiate painkillers.

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The West poured opium into China in the 1800's, and their society literally collapsed

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Is this true? I've never heard anything about that.

They want to kill us all so they can be the world superpower. They are trying to with their products but it’s taking too long

Dee Dee Ramone was pretty knowledge about heroin and it’s potency and Dee Dee said in his book that the best heroin to ever enter Manhattan was the old “china white” heroin powder in the 70’s. China has made a good amount of money from american junkies for a long time. The national news media demoralizes the hell out of this nation and they wonder why anybody would want to escape and nod out with potent opiates? There will always be a huge demand for narcotics from here on out. All these first generation immigrants are going to regret the day they came here. We’re going to make their children junkies. Maybe not all of them but a good portion.