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Fentanyl, Inc. - How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic (Hardcover)
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Fentanyl, Inc. - How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic (Hardcover)
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A remarkable four-year investigation into the dangerous world of
synthetic drugs--from black market drug factories in China to users
and dealers on the streets of the U.S. to harm reduction activists
in Europe--which reveals for the first time the next wave of the
opioid epidemic 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 U.S. 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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