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A lot of the fentanyl in Canada comes from china and was ordered over the dark web.

by dpc59 9y ago

hackermailman 9y ago
Fentanyl and other opioid synthetics were legal to export in China until very recently, so ordering it was as simple as going on Alibaba or other wholesaler chemical sites and just bringing in enough of it that customs would miss a few shipments. Now that there are regulations involved on the Chinese side the price of Fentanyl smuggling has risen and it's no longer an attractive synthetic to maximize profits for dealers so they are importing other synthetics or Fentanyl from countries who still don't have export laws. Realistically the only way to stop this problem besides legalization is labs for testing pills and powders like they have in Spain and Netherlands, and mobile Suboxone clinics[1] which were proven here (Vancouver, Canada) to be the best solution for addict recovery as they can pick up the phone and have somebody quietly prescribe them Suboxone treatment without having to queue up at the methodone clinics everyday. Suboxone was described to me as satisfying the 'fiend' cravings while not making you high, so you can function sober and no longer need to chase daily money to satisfy a drug addiction and can actually plan things. It also ensures you won't use again since the antagonist ingredients makes it more difficult or impossible to use other opioids at the same time, making relapse less likely. The safe injection sites here are a double edged sword. On one hand they are helpful for street addicts but on the other hand they are more likely to take risks, knowing there's a nurse there so aren't afraid of mystery powders like they used to be, according to anecdotes of people I've talked to who frequent them. The city handed out overdose kits to street users who demanded a peer to peer type safe injection network but the junkies stole the needles out of the kits to shoot up with basically rendering them useless and wasting the hundreds of thousands it cost to distribute them. There's some data here about the Netherlands success in drug use reduction, they put a lot of funds into prevention instead of just treatment. http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/country-drug-reports/2017/netherlands http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/country-drug-report... [1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/a-bc-clinic-is-showing-how-quick-treatment-can-get-patients-offopioids/article33815291/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/a-bc-c...

A lot of the fentanyl in Canada comes from china and was ordered over the dark web.

by dpc59 9y ago

A lot of the fentanyl in Canada comes from china and was ordered over the dark web.

Fentanyl and other opioid synthetics were legal to export in China until very recently, so ordering it was as simple as going on Alibaba or other wholesaler chemical sites and just bringing in enough of it that customs would miss a few shipments. Now that there are regulations involved on the Chinese side the price of Fentanyl smuggling has risen and it's no longer an attractive synthetic to maximize profits for dealers so they are importing other synthetics or Fentanyl from countries who still don't have export laws. Realistically the only way to stop this problem besides legalization is labs for testing pills and powders like they have in Spain and Netherlands, and mobile Suboxone clinics[1] which were proven here (Vancouver, Canada) to be the best solution for addict recovery as they can pick up the phone and have somebody quietly prescribe them Suboxone treatment without having to queue up at the methodone clinics everyday. Suboxone was described to me as satisfying the 'fiend' cravings while not making you high, so you can function sober and no longer need to chase daily money to satisfy a drug addiction and can actually plan things. It also ensures you won't use again since the antagonist ingredients makes it more difficult or impossible to use other opioids at the same time, making relapse less likely. The safe injection sites here are a double edged sword. On one hand they are helpful for street addicts but on the other hand they are more likely to take risks, knowing there's a nurse there so aren't afraid of mystery powders like they used to be, according to anecdotes of people I've talked to who frequent them. The city handed out overdose kits to street users who demanded a peer to peer type safe injection network but the junkies stole the needles out of the kits to shoot up with basically rendering them useless and wasting the hundreds of thousands it cost to distribute them. There's some data here about the Netherlands success in drug use reduction, they put a lot of funds into prevention instead of just treatment. http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/country-drug-reports/2017/netherlands http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/country-drug-report... [1] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/a-bc-clinic-is-showing-how-quick-treatment-can-get-patients-offopioids/article33815291/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/a-bc-c...