 | Fentanyl can be ordered online from Chinese manufacturers, and its high potency allows it to be smuggled in small packages through regular mail. The drug is either cut into, or made to look like, other drugs including cocaine, heroin and oxycodone and sold for massive profits.
China needs to effectively crack down on the export of illicit drugs. “It’s difficult,” wrote Fangyu Zhu. “If we set regulations on one substance, they [chemists] can always find a substitution or synthesize slightly different, then it’s a new, legal substance that can be exported.” |