“It’s not your father’s drug market,” said one expert. “We have a synthetic drug crisis caused by stronger and more potent drugs.”
BOILER-PIPE: A report released Monday by Harm Reduction Ohio suggests that cocaine in that state is being spiked with fentanyl on the local level, by small-scale dealers. Scientific analyses of police seizures found large quantities of cocaine uncontaminated, whereas small-scale seizures turned up with fentanyl 14.1% of the time.
Methamphetamines are now made from industrial chemical precursors, not cold medicine, according to the report, “and major drug seizures of large quantities imported from Mexico are more commonly reported.” According to Zibbell, the former CDC epidemiologist, meth from Mexico — “more powerful, potent, and pure” — has overtaken the weaker varieties cooked up domestically by amateurs, leading to more overdoses while expanding the supply. And that surge has fed the fourth wave of the crisis.
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