Fentanyl crisis: Is China a major source of illegal drugs?

[Sanguine]

Amid tension between China and the US over trade, there's also friction over another issue - the illegal trade in synthetic drugs.

The US believes factory-produced opioids - powerful painkillers increasingly abused by US citizens - are being made in China and sold from there too.

One of the main ones is fentanyl - 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine - which is only approved in the US for severe pain arising in cases like treatment for cancer.

President Trump has called out China publicly....

Pretty good article except for the last few paragraphs.

[dfwgator]

Revenge for the Opium Dens.

[TomSea]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45564744 (article link I think)

Trump with a tweet saying the fentanyl comes pouring into the U.S. through the postal system.

[TomSea]

I read a novel, "Red Winter, White Snow", self published espionage fiction book and the plot was our adversaries pouring drugs into the US to undermine us. That book is from cerca 2001, so a different set of drugs but the scenario is still valid.

The authors certainly did not come up with this idea, it has been put forth many times.... drugs, mainly illegal,  can undermine us, maybe in parts of the nation, it has. The book I read was more about what the crack cocaine epidemic was about.