The fentanyl's lethal journey from Wuhan via Mexico to the United States
According to the California Department of Health, more than 71,000 people died from overdoses of this synthetic opioid in the United States in 2021. A hundred thousand had been killed by the year 2022
Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine and frequently compounded with these and other drugs. So how does it make it over the ocean to the United States?