Last year over 100,000 people in the US were killed by overdose. The drug most connected to these deaths is fentanyl – a synthetic opioid over 50 times stronger than heroin.
Fentanyl is at the centre of the North American opioid crisis, provoking some wild myths, poor reporting and politicised scare stories.
But where does this drug actually come from? How does it get made? And is the Chinese government actually supporting the production of a drug that is killing tens of thousands of people across North America and the world?
Ben Westhoff has travelled to China to see first-hand the factories and labs that produce fentanyl and its precursor chemicals.
He reveals the secrets of how this drug is being produced – and the involvement of the Chinese government.
Ben Westhoff’s book, “Fentanyl, Inc.” is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Fentanyl-Inc-Chemists-Creating-Deadliest/dp/0802127436/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Watch more from this series:
Infiltrating Europe’s Most Dangerous Drugs Gangs
How Cartels Build Billion-Dollar Empires
The Drugs Fuelling Deadly Wars
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and the weapons of war that the cartels have are MADE IN USA
should rename this “how democrats are profiting from the drug crisis in America”
Shut up.
@@SickestWorld how VICE is supporting Dems who support open borders that are the root cause of the crisis… they are bought by China, or at least Joe Briben is.
What a hack job. Ask a guy questions over the phone, then splice in a video of you asking those questions.
“I don’t think the Chinese government was trying to purposefully poison people…” 12:20 What is that opinion based on? I think they have plenty of incentives to use alternative forms of warfare against their ideological adversary.
The music makes this unwatchable
Only fair, The Opium Wars in reverse