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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic

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  • Fentanyl, Inc. is a deeply-reported investigation into the headline-making and rapidly evolving landscape of synthetic drugs, the ways they are invented, produced, distributed, the lives they destroy, and the growing efforts to counteract their damage.
  • Fentanyl is “the deadliest drug in America” (CDC 2018), a synthetic opioid constantly in the headlines today. It can be up to 50 times stronger than heroin; some of its analogues even stronger, and a tiny amount can overwhelm the respiratory system. Of the 70,000-plus deaths from drug overdoses in 2017, over 28,000 were caused by synthetic opioids such as fentanyl (compared to 16,000 from heroin and 15,000 from prescription opioids).
  • All major synthetic drugs originated in legitimate laboratories for proper scientific purposes, but were hijacked by rogue chemists.
  • This is the first book to detail how illicit fentanyl is produced. Westhoff’s revelations about China’s chemical and pharmaceutical industries are headline-making—no other American has penetrated China’s chemical industry. A Congressional subcommittee concentration on the opioid epidemic has reached out to him with a view to his presenting what he knows about China. He has also been approached to give a TEDx talk and to speak at opioid conferences.
  • Readers of other bestsellers on the opioid crisis—Sam Quinones’s Dreamland (250,000 copies sold), Beth Macy’s Dopesick (bestseller list), Johan Hari’s classic Chasing the Scream—or of Misha Glenny’s various books, are the natural audience for Fentanyl, Inc.
  • Where Dreamland, Dopesick, and Chasing the Scream concentrate on the drug crisis in America, Fentanyl, Inc. is both a U.S. and a global story.
  • Westhoff first learned about the scourge of synthetic drugs as a journalist covering huge music festivals that saw a sudden rise in deaths of attendees taking drugs they thought were safe.
  • Westhoff is an award-winning and fearless investigative journalist who has written for Rolling Stone, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, Village Voice, Vice, among other outlets. His most recent book, Original Gangstas, illuminated the world of West Coast rap and has sold 25,000 copies in all formats. All of his writing features vivid narratives, compelling characters, and rigorous reporting.
  • LanguageEnglish
    Release dateSep 3, 2019
    ISBN9780802147950
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      A far reaching and impeccably researched on our current opioid epidemic. I've heard of fentanyl, in fact I've heard of many of the drugs discussed within this book. What I didn't realize was how far reaching the drug problem is, not contained to just the US but so many other countries as well, from Sweden to New Zealand. Just how many designer, synthetic drugs are in existence, how for every drug made illegal, another is waiting to take its place. This is a comprehensive view of the drug trade, the chemists and manufacturers who make them, to how they are marketed, effect their users and the history of some of these drugs. Some made for good, medical purposes, but a small change in the drugs chemical makeup and it becomes a powerful street drug. It's almost overwhelming, how can this wave of new drugs ever be stopped. I was also surprised that many of these powerful drugs are coming from and produced in China. The author does provide some solutions to better handling of the drug crisis. Not sure how these would work but better control over the drugs people are taking, treatment rather than just punishment, may be a better way than how it is handled now. Some users actually do not know s drug is tampered with, until it is too late, so a place where they could come and use their drugs under the view of qualified personnel may help. I don't know, but this book is alarming and at this point anything that can be tried, should be. Very eye opening, and frightening both, well worth reading.ARC from Edelweiss.