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Saturday, January 5, 2019

Fentanyl: The death letter from the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG

Translated by El Profe for Borderlandbeat from La Silla Rota
                                          Fentanilo, el mensaje de la muerte del Cártel de Sinaloa y CJNG
    
It is up to 100 times more potent than morphine and the adulteration of heroin sent to the US caused an unprecedented increase in deaths from overdose.

In the last 10 years, the outlook for drugs in the United States has changed, with the threat of opioids (controlled drugs, synthetic opioids and heroin) reaching epidemic levels and impacting significant portions of the United States.
 
A particular synthetic opioid, fentanyl, is used as an adulterant by the Mexican cartels, specifically by the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation Cartel according to the most recent DEA report on drug risks for the United States.
 
While the current opiate crisis has received significant attention, the threat of methamphetamine prevails; the risk of cocaine seems to be re-emerging; new psychoactive substances (NPS) are still a challenge, and the focus of marijuana application efforts continues to evolve.


Drug poisoning (overdose) is one of the leading causes of death in the United States; currently at a high, and since 2011, has outnumbered deaths by firearms, vehicular accidents, suicide and homicide. In 2016 approximately 140 people died daily from drug overdoses.
 

According to the DEA, heroin poses a serious public health issue and a security threat to the United States; deaths from overdoses increased 19% from 2015 to 2016. The increase in the adulteration of heroin with highly potent synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, have led to extreme problems due to their use.
 
The number of deaths may have increased due to the increase in the supply of heroin and the increased use of fentanyl as an adulterant.
 
"The levels of cultivation of opium poppy and the production of its derivative (heroin) in Mexico, continues to increase, the main market is the United States. The heroin supplied in the East of the country is highly pure, cheap, and increasingly contains more fentanyl. Some indicators suggest that fentanyl is significantly impacting the market share of heroin, in some markets, it has even supplanted heroin," states the report.

Deaths from heroin overdoses are high and have increased throughout the United States, particularly in the Northeast and the Midwest. Deaths from heroin overdoses have quadrupled between 2010 and 2015; the most recent data indicate that deaths from heroin use amounted to 12,989 in 2015.
 
Deaths related to heroin will continue, in the short term, at high levels; the heroin available in the markets of the United States is of high purity. The increase in poppy cultivation in Mexico (the main supplier of heroin in the United States ) ensures that it will remain at high levels of purity.

The heroin market is linked to the highly potent fentanyl market, this combination will probably lead to an increase in deaths from drugs derived from poppy.
 
"Fentanyl will continue to penetrate the US heroin market, may eventually supplant heroin, because the profit margin for fentanyl is higher than heroin. Fentanyl replacing heroin will depend on the extent to which traffickers incorporate it into heroin and its distribution activities," according to the  
DEA report.
   
WHAT IS FENTANYL ?
 
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid, approved for use as an analgesic and anesthetic. It is extremely powerful, it has become an attractive drug for opiate drug users.
 
Fentanyl is also illicitly manufactured in laboratories in China and probably also in Mexico.
 
Fentanyl is used for its potent opioid properties, it is approximately 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. Like other opioids, fentanyl causes euphoria and is very addictive.
 
Fentanyl is transported to the United States directly from China or China via Canada. It is also introduced via the Mexico-US border, where large volumes of fentanyl have been seized, although, these shipments are of low purity. On average these shipments reach 7 % purity while fentanyl seized from China can have a purity of 90%.

The Center for Prevention and Control of Deaths (CDC) reported that deaths due to overdose or abuse of synthetic opioids in 2016 doubled. While in 2015 there were 9,580 deaths, for 2016 the number was 19,410 deaths due to the abuse in the consumption of synthetic opioids. Fentanyl was mostly involved in the number of deaths compared to other synthetic opioid substances.

It is believed that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel are the largest traffickers of Fentanyl.

39 comments:

  1. Mexicans remind of me ALOT of italians all they do is talk smack on each other degrade and humiliate each other specifically those sinola on michocan reminds me of sardinians and sicilians at the end your the same people who cares if u have and extra percent or 2 more of some type of euro or are a shade lighter at the end of the day we the world and real Europeans see you guys as the same indigos indioes or what ever you guys like to refer each other to.-ol brit guy

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    1. Call us what you want we still only see Europeans as customer's nothing more nothing less. It's not just Mexicans dipshit it's everywhere so stop trying to single out Mexicans. Just remember that cuz of the US Europe isn't called Germany

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    2. Run ur mouth on here but in real life you tremble with fear when they pass by you in the streets nobody is scared of Europeans

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    3. Well said.. if your Mexican you have indigenous blood but Sinaloa are to ignorant

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    4. Jajaja donde estan los de sangre extranjera(sinaloa) ayi les habla su padre 🤣😂🤣🤣 ol brit dude we from.the south of mex jalisco and down are proud of our roots unlike the sinaloense and other no pride states from the north that are confused and swear they are your distant blood cousins lololololol btw i didnt find this offensive his just stating facts unfortunately.

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    5. 6:17 not really he actually speaking the nasty digusting truth it hurts but real recognize real and same thing with arabs.

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    6. What are you 13? 6:20

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    7. Mexican cartels remind me of ISIS actually..furthermore the Italians answer to the Mexicans.. everybody answers to the Mexicans.

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    8. Shouldn't bring race into this but yes every race....black, white, Mexican etc all do the same shit. So to the British guy have some respect

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    9. Lmao... The same indios that will cut your mothers head clean off, while you snort our drugs. See us as you want from behind your screen, but the Mexicans control every major criminal market. The cartels, if they wanted to, could erase whatever lame ass structure you euro pansies have set up. But we enjoy having the market. So keep hating while the flow of drugs doesn't stop, thanks to Mexico. And don't forget every time you see some junkie euro... Thats Mexico sending their regards

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    10. 6:17: nailed it! Brit guy sounds a bit resentful because he's quickly becoming a minority in his own country

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    11. @6:17 thanx for reminding us how long time ago it was that the US actually contributed something positive to the world.

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    12. Russia turned the tide of world war 2 not USA. Read a book typical american

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    13. @6:17 And also Russia, especially them

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    14. The Italians? Lmao let me guess you learned that from a mob documentary lmao let me tell you something. You and about 98% of the general public dont know jack shit about the cartels/mafia other than documentarys. So with all do respect old Brit vete a la verga u old wanker!

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    15. @6:20p.m! Ppl thought the s.s in germany were harmless at first also!we all know how that turned out! Never underestimate the underdog!its mans inhumanity towards man no matter where theyre from!

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    16. 6:53 proud Aztec and tarascan blood.. did a blood test and have little black, Italian and Irish blood.. but never ashamed of my indigenous blood.. in the states white people see me and ask if I'm native, I tell them that I'm native but from Mexico, they look at each other and respect the fact that I'm not ignorant and know my history.. arriva michoacan!!

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    17. 1:37

      LMAO you have some fantasy if you think that the cartels could go to war with Europe. Stay in your corrupted shithole, there you can act as tough as you want.

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    18. @6:20

      Nah man.... outside of your country you are nothing. Come to Sicily or Naples and act tough and see what happens and how that works out for ya.

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    19. @1:37

      You can do what you do in Mexico because you have a complacent government which could easily kick your ass if it weren’t so corrupt.

      Your shit wouldn’t fly neither in the Us nor in Europe, where corruption isn’t even remotely as pervasive as it is in your shithole country.

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  2. Since fentanyl is superior to heroin when it comes to potency then how can it be an adulterant? Maybe an enhancer.

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  3. That's the reason tierra caliente doesn't grow poppies anymore. Those Chinese are smart, soon will come up with generic cocaine and step 9n the colombians

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    1. Somebody already has. Pink cocaine a kilo goes for about 60k and no it's none of that lame strawberry flavored lavada. This is lab made synthetic coke.

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    2. Pharmaceutical cocaine has been around since 1860 those of us who are old enough still remember when pharmaceutical grade cocaine would make it to the streets and though pharmaceutical companies still manufacture it... it’s use is rare these days—but was used frequently from 1860 to 1980– and typically comes as a mouthwash or a cream today I don’t remember exactly when off the top my head but around 20 to 30 years ago it became much more difficult for doctors to prescribe; they had to have a special license etc.

      But it is still out there and doctors can and do still prescribe it, it’s primary use now is as a mouthwash for some people who are being treated with chemotherapy. But pharmaceutical grade cocaine, cocaine hydrochloride, is still out there doctors can still prescribe it and still do sometimes.

      Do you ever seen the movie drugstore cowboy there’s a great scene where Matt Dillon‘s character and the author of the book and the movie was based on, rips off a pharmacy and manages to get a bottle of cocaine hydrochloride



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    3. A great story from Rolling Stone on some of their Merck fueled coke parties.
      https://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2010/12/24/merck-cocaine-behind-some-of-those-fabulous-rolling-stones-songs/#443f8d193296

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    4. @ Doug: Thanks, great article.
      Mexico-Watcher

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    5. Anyone else heard of that lavado cause that’s the third time I’ve heard of flavored cocaine. Anyone ever seen it

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  4. Fetty changed the Heroin market. The users now only want Fetty and regular heroin isn’t strong enough for them. They know they might OD but that’s the risk they are willing to take.

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    1. When the option is live on the street and be sick or live on the street and be high..the option isn’t hard.

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    2. You are so right but in the end it's very sad. That these people is wanting to die behind this cause of the high. I really feel for the families that was effected by this horrible drug

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    3. Also fetty is cheaper to buy and you make a bigger buck out of it than regular heroin

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  5. I can only wonder when the US Coast Guard is going to start boarding ships with staff and test equipment? To embarrass China. It is said to be shipped in drums at least the precursors.

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  6. There are many families that dont see each other or hate each other so maybey there one family dont care about each other so wy would you care about them

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  7. After 30 years of WoD and 'King Pin Strategy' we got more drugs and OD dead than ever before.

    Thus the question is: who is stupid?

    We (the 99%) or they (the 1% and policy makers)???

    I think we all believe the policy makers to be stupid, but in fact we are the stupids being fooled like this for 30 years and 1000's of dead.

    The policy makers got their billions in budgets, a population pacified by the flood of drugs engulfing us, pubic enemies they can blame evertyhing on instead of addressing real issues like poverty and inequality.

    I would say the policy making elite got a us by the balls and everytime we try to breath they squeeze just a little bit harder.

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    1. Nice reply.
      American policies are dictated by big companies and corporations. Fossil fuel industries, pharmaceutical companies, banks ect.

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      Like your post 7:24
      Hope to keep reading posts like this . And not the gibberish that some contribute.

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  8. Putin is behind it all!
    America always needs an enemy!
    Even it is an illusion!

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  9. gente estupida que usa drogas y la neta dan lastima, ala verga eza gente.

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  10. Communist China dumps Fentanyl into Mexico and tbe CDS ships it off to the USA

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  11. I agree the real winners here, make the rules, change the rules and stay outta jail are the policy makers. Govt. everyone else is a puppet.

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