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Fentanyl, Inc. - how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic (Paperback)
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Fentanyl, Inc. - how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic (Paperback)
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List price R583
Loot Price R522
Discovery Miles 5 220
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A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR. An undercover investigation into the
synthetic-drug epidemic. A new group of chemicals is radically
transforming the recreational-drug landscape. Known as novel
psychoactive substances (NPS), they range from so-called 'legal
highs' like Spice, to synthetic opioids - most famously, the deadly
fentanyl. Designed to replicate the effects of established drugs
like cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana, and heroin, NPS are synthesised
in laboratories. They are cheap to produce and easy to transport.
They are also extremely potent and often deadly. Originally
developed for medicinal purposes, and then hijacked by rogue
chemists, who change their molecular structures to stay ahead of
the law, these chemicals' effects can be impossible to predict.
What we do know is that they have triggered the biggest drug
epidemic that America has ever seen, and which is now spreading
internationally. In Fentanyl, Inc., award-winning journalist Ben
Westhoff goes undercover to investigate the shadowy world of
synthetic drugs - becoming, in the process, the first journalist to
infiltrate a Chinese fentanyl lab. He tracks down the drug baron in
New Zealand who unintentionally helped to start the synthetic-drug
revolution; prowls St. Louis streets with a former fentanyl dealer
to understand how the epidemic started; and chronicles the lives of
addicts and dealers, families of victims, law enforcement officers,
and underground drug-awareness organisers in the US and Europe.
Fentanyl, Inc. is essential reading on a global calamity we are
only just beginning to understand.
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