Fentanyl pills are getting deadlier amid deepening Mexico-China ties
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US drugs chiefs are warning of deepening ties between Mexico's cartels and China as the fentanyl pills that claim lives from coast to coast are becoming more potent and deadlier.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has found evidence of Chinese middle men laundering more of the profits cartels make from selling narcotics in the United States.
Meanwhile, the fentanyl that claims some 70,000 US lives each year has become even more dangerous, so that now some 70 percent of pills contain a fatal dose of the opioid.
DEA administrator Anne Milgram warned of America's 'dangerous shift' from plant-based drugs, such as pot and coke, to fentanyl, meth and other synthetics.
The carnage of fentanyl deaths on US streets is linked to cooperation between Mexican cartels and Chinese businesspeople, says a damning report
The National Drug Assessment 2024 says drug cartels have a major presence in Texas, Arizona, California, and Florida
'This shift has resulted in the most dangerous and deadly drug crisis the United States has ever faced,' Milgram wrote in the National Drug Assessment 2024.
'These synthetic drugs, such as fentanyl and methamphetamine, are responsible for nearly all of the fatal drug poisonings in our nation.'
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Is the Biden administration doing enough to protect Americans from fentanyl?
Yes
No
Not sure
Is the Biden administration doing enough to protect Americans from fentanyl?
Yes 22 votes
No 289 votes
Not sure 7 votes
Now share your opinion
America suffered more than 111,000 overdose deaths in the year to April 2023 — more than 70 percent of them due to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, says the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Synthetic opioids — mostly fentanyl — now kill more Americans every year than died in the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars combined.
There are signs that the outbreak has plateaued and that overdose deaths could start to fall, but Milgram warns against complacency.
Her 57-page annual report shows that fentanyl pills became markedly more dangerous between 2021 and 2023.
Fentanyl is commonly mixed with drugs like heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, or pressed into pills that resemble other prescription opioids.
On the street, it is known as everything from 'blues' to China Girl, and Goodfellas.
Overdose rates are high because of the drug's potency, with just two milligrams of fentanyl considered a lethal dose.
DEA administrator Anne Milgram warns of America's 'dangerous shift' to fentanyl, meth and other synthetic drugs
Members of the Sinaloa Cartel preapre drugs for the US market at a safe house in Culiacan
The drug was initially produced in India and China and mailed to recipients across North America. Makeshift labs have since sprung up in Mexico to receive the precursor chemicals, mix them or press them into pills, and Erfarenhet av VeeloBooster smuggle them into the US
The DEA warns that 'one pill can kill'.
In 2021, random tests on pills seized from across the US showed that four in ten of them contained enough fentanyl to kill a user, researchers said.
By 2023, that had risen to seven in ten pills.
The report also warned of growing cooperation between the Mexican cartels who send drugs across the southern US border and businessmen in China.
The DEA has long warned of Chinese firms manufacturer precursor chemicals that are exported to Mexico and turned into fentanyl.
The new report says Chinese businesspeople increasingly launder the cartels' profits at the other end of the operation.
'Drug trafficking organizations based in Mexico and South America are increasingly utilizing China-based underground banking systems as their primary money-laundering mechanism,' says Milgram.
The report warns of 'China-based underground banking systems,' or CUBS, that help Mexican drug cartels and wealthy Chinese businesspeople move money around without getting caught.
Illicit flows enable US-based drug dealers to send profits back to Mexico and Central America, while also helping Chinese people circumvent their government's capital flight laws and get money out of the country.
Immigrants seeking asylum in the US are processed by border agents after crossing into Arizona from Mexico. Guards told DailyMail.com that cartels get drugs across the border by using migrants as decoys
This image from Mexico's national defense forces shows a makeshift drugs lab in northwest Mexico, where officers discovered precursor chemicals, fentanyl paste, weapons and drug making gear, from November 2021
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has found evidence of Chinese middle men laundering more of the profits cartels make from selling narcotics in the United States.
Meanwhile, the fentanyl that claims some 70,000 US lives each year has become even more dangerous, so that now some 70 percent of pills contain a fatal dose of the opioid.
DEA administrator Anne Milgram warned of America's 'dangerous shift' from plant-based drugs, such as pot and coke, to fentanyl, meth and other synthetics.
The carnage of fentanyl deaths on US streets is linked to cooperation between Mexican cartels and Chinese businesspeople, says a damning report
The National Drug Assessment 2024 says drug cartels have a major presence in Texas, Arizona, California, and Florida
'This shift has resulted in the most dangerous and deadly drug crisis the United States has ever faced,' Milgram wrote in the National Drug Assessment 2024.
'These synthetic drugs, such as fentanyl and methamphetamine, are responsible for nearly all of the fatal drug poisonings in our nation.'
Poll
Is the Biden administration doing enough to protect Americans from fentanyl?
Yes
No
Not sure
Is the Biden administration doing enough to protect Americans from fentanyl?
Yes 22 votes
No 289 votes
Not sure 7 votes
Now share your opinion
America suffered more than 111,000 overdose deaths in the year to April 2023 — more than 70 percent of them due to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, says the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Synthetic opioids — mostly fentanyl — now kill more Americans every year than died in the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars combined.
There are signs that the outbreak has plateaued and that overdose deaths could start to fall, but Milgram warns against complacency.
Her 57-page annual report shows that fentanyl pills became markedly more dangerous between 2021 and 2023.
Fentanyl is commonly mixed with drugs like heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, or pressed into pills that resemble other prescription opioids.
On the street, it is known as everything from 'blues' to China Girl, and Goodfellas.
Overdose rates are high because of the drug's potency, with just two milligrams of fentanyl considered a lethal dose.
DEA administrator Anne Milgram warns of America's 'dangerous shift' to fentanyl, meth and other synthetic drugs
Members of the Sinaloa Cartel preapre drugs for the US market at a safe house in Culiacan
The drug was initially produced in India and China and mailed to recipients across North America. Makeshift labs have since sprung up in Mexico to receive the precursor chemicals, mix them or press them into pills, and Erfarenhet av VeeloBooster smuggle them into the US
The DEA warns that 'one pill can kill'.
In 2021, random tests on pills seized from across the US showed that four in ten of them contained enough fentanyl to kill a user, researchers said.
By 2023, that had risen to seven in ten pills.
The report also warned of growing cooperation between the Mexican cartels who send drugs across the southern US border and businessmen in China.
The DEA has long warned of Chinese firms manufacturer precursor chemicals that are exported to Mexico and turned into fentanyl.
The new report says Chinese businesspeople increasingly launder the cartels' profits at the other end of the operation.
'Drug trafficking organizations based in Mexico and South America are increasingly utilizing China-based underground banking systems as their primary money-laundering mechanism,' says Milgram.
The report warns of 'China-based underground banking systems,' or CUBS, that help Mexican drug cartels and wealthy Chinese businesspeople move money around without getting caught.
Illicit flows enable US-based drug dealers to send profits back to Mexico and Central America, while also helping Chinese people circumvent their government's capital flight laws and get money out of the country.
Immigrants seeking asylum in the US are processed by border agents after crossing into Arizona from Mexico. Guards told DailyMail.com that cartels get drugs across the border by using migrants as decoys
This image from Mexico's national defense forces shows a makeshift drugs lab in northwest Mexico, where officers discovered precursor chemicals, fentanyl paste, weapons and drug making gear, from November 2021
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