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Westhoff, Ben author.
Subjects
Designer drugs.
Fentanyl.
Opioid abuse -- United States.
Drug addiction -- United States.
Drug abuse -- Fentanyl.
Fentanyl -- Physiological aspects.
Fentanyl -- Sociological aspects.
Fentanyl -- Economic aspects.
Fentanyl -- History.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry -- China.
Pharmaceutical industry -- China -- Government relations.
Drug development -- United States -- History.
Drugs -- Overdose.
Drugs -- Toxicology.
Drug adulteration.
Drugs of abuse -- History.
Drug factories.
Drug traffic -- China.
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Fentanyl, Inc. : how...
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Fentanyl, Inc. : how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic / Ben Westhoff.
by
Westhoff, Ben author.
Subjects
Designer
drugs
.
Fentanyl.
Opioid
abuse
--
United States.
Drug addiction
--
United States.
Drug
abuse
--
Fentanyl.
Fentanyl
--
Physiological aspects.
Fentanyl
--
Sociological aspects.
Fentanyl
--
Economic aspects.
Fentanyl
--
History
.
Pharmaceutical industry
--
Moral and ethical aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry
--
China.
Pharmaceutical industry
--
China
--
Government relations.
Drug development
--
United States
--
History
.
Drugs
--
Overdose.
Drugs
--
Toxicology.
Drug adulteration.
Drugs
of
abuse
--
History
.
Drug factories.
Drug traffic
--
China.
Publisher Info:
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019.
©2019
Edition:
First edition.
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Description:
viii, 341 pages ; 24 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9780802127433
0802127436
Contents:
Introduction
--
The new
drugs
--
Users and dealers
--
The source
--
A new approach
--
Epilogue.
Format Book:
Summary:
"A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it. "A whole new crop of chemicals is radically changing the recreational drug landscape," writes Ben Westhoff. "These are known as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and they include replacements for known
drugs
like heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. They are synthetic, made in a laboratory, and are much more potent than traditional
drugs
"--and all-too-often tragically lethal.
Drugs
like fentanyl, K2, and Spice--and those with arcane acronyms like 25i-NBOMe-- were all originally conceived in legitimate laboratories for proper scientific and medicinal purposes. Their formulas were then hijacked and manufactured by rogue chemists, largely in China, who change their molecular structures to stay ahead of the law, making the
drugs
' effects impossible to predict. Westhoff has infiltrated this shadowy world. He tracks down the little-known scientists who invented these
drugs
and inadvertently killed thousands, as well as a mysterious drug baron who turned the law upside down in his home country of New Zealand. Westhoff visits the shady factories in China from which these
drugs
emanate, providing startling and original reporting on how China's vast chemical industry operates, and how the Chinese government subsidizes it. Poignantly, he chronicles the lives of addicted users and dealers, families of victims, law enforcement officers, and underground drug awareness organizers in the U.S. and Europe. Together they represent the shocking and riveting full anatomy of a calamity we are just beginning to understand. From its depths, as Westhoff relates, are emerging new strategies that may provide essential long-term solutions to the drug crisis that has affected so many."--Publisher's website.
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