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

Because it is not used/sold in the way you think it is.

Fentanyl is used to cut fake prescription pills. You get more bang for less buck. But....the black market pill mills are shite and cannot accurately control the distribution of fentanyl on a per-pill level. A junky can buy 10 pills. Four can be just right, four can be next nothing, and two can have more than enough fentanyl to kill a few people. The problem is, no one involved can tell the difference.

I’ve heard that when someone ODs the addicts want to know who the dealer was because they want the strongest stuff. These people are not well.

Incorrect.

Even tho you’re alluding to it being mixed in with other drugs which cause people to accidentally OD

Easy to smuggle and can be cut into anything.

People who get addicted to government approved heroin buy black market pills because it’s way way cheaper.

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Buying drugs on the street is a game of Russian roulette. From Xanax to cocaine, drugs or counterfeit pills purchased in nonmedical settings may contain life-threatening amounts of fentanyl.

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Our nation is sick, and our doctors prescribed the sickness.

Maybe I’m just not cool, but if a single grain of fentanyl can kill a person, how is that people are abusing it recreationally?

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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.

I wish Trump would've obliterated the cartels the way he did ISIS

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Why kill off your clientele?

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If you don't kill some of your clientele, your product is not addictive enough.

They aren’t intentionally killing off their clientele. Fentanyl is cheap compared to the real drugs. So the dealers/cartels dilute other drugs and mix in a little fentanyl. Then they sell it as if it were heroin or various prescription pills. Bigger profit margin from reducing the production costs. Drug user doesn’t know this and just knows it gets them high as frick….until they get a batch with just a little too much fentanyl mixed in and it kills them

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They aren’t intentionally killing off their clientele. Fentanyl is cheap compared to the real drugs. So the dealers/cartels dilute other drugs and mix in a little fentanyl. Then they sell it as if it were heroin or various prescription pills. Bigger profit margin from reducing the production costs. Drug user doesn’t know this and just knows it gets them high as frick….until they get a batch with just a little too much fentanyl mixed in and it kills them

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Yes! Yes and Yes! This is the correct answer! These drug dealers are messing with Fentanyl and are not pharmacists. They don’t even realize how much they are using/adding to their “products” trying to get their stuff better and more addictive than the next guy’s product. They are literally playing with people’s lives trying to have the best shite out there.