Amid fentanyl crackdown, Mexico risks 'balloon effect'
afp.com
President Donald Trump says China's new ban on all fentanyl-related substances will be a "game-changer" in the deadly US opioid crisis, but experts warn it may just shift production elsewhere -- particularly Mexico.
Under pressure from Trump, China on May 1 banned all chemical analogues of fentanyl, the synthetic drug at the heart of an overdose epidemic that is killing tens of thousands of people a year in the United States.
Trump won the fentanyl concession as part of his trade war with China, which is allegedly the world's leading supplier of the powerful narcotic, along with designer drugs that mimic it and the precursor chemicals used to make all of them.
Read more at: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/amid-fentanyl-crackdown-mexico-risks-balloon-effect/ar-AACbqgD
70,000 deaths in 2017 per the article towards the end.
