Think you know anything of fentanyl?

8-29-19    The Mexican Navy in the Port of Cardenas discovered 52,000 pounds of fentanyl powder in a mismarked container from a Danish ship arriving from Shanghai, China. https://www.theepochtimes.com/mexico-seizes-52000-pounds-of-fentanyl-from-china_3059981.html
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2-26-19     China was quickly able to leverage foreign investment and technological know-how into its own sprawling life science industry. That’s due not only to China’s highly educated workforce, but because developing a robust biotechnology sector is a necessity as its population ages.

Throughout the early 2000s, foreign investment transferred billions into China’s coffers. The CCP in turn invested much of that capital into its nascent life sciences industry—and it exploded. From 2001 to 2005, investment grew by over 400 percent, from $100 million to $1.2 billion. And from 2004 to 2005, China’s biopharmaceutical market grew over 30 percent, rising to 7 percent of the global market. By 2006, biopharma was 60 percent of China’s life sciences sector; by 2010, the biopharmaceutical market was 900 percent bigger than it was in 2005. As both a producer and the world’s largest consumer market, China’s pharmaceutical industry expansion is likely to continue, and is expected to reach $145 and $175 billion by 2022.

That rapid growth is being helped along by China aggressive knowledge-gathering policy known as the “Thousand Talents Plan.” This program not only invites Chinese bio scientists and academics living abroad to return home to continue their research and development, but is intended to also attract foreign bioscience talent as well. Leading scientists and medical device developers around the world are offered full professorships or the equivalent at Chinese universities and laboratories, high compensation, excellent funding, and the freedom to pursue their research. The plan has seen some success and continues to attract some of the top talent in the world to China.  https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-and-the-new-drug-war_2816758.html

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  We’ve written a fair amount about the menace of illicit labs in China and elsewhere, producing potent and lethal synthetic opioids, like fentanyl and its analogs, often marketed over the darknet. Illicitly produced synthetic drugs now account for fully half the opioid overdose deaths in this country. Drug policy analyst Robert DuPont has warned us that “the global illegal market is switching from agricultural products to purely synthetic drugs,” and that this fact is driving the future of the epidemic....

According to the indictment, Yan was supplying a wide range of synthetic drugs, including fentanyl analogs, to more than 100 distributors in New Orleans, Baltimore, Portsmouth, NH, and dozens of other US cities, not to mention locations in Russia, Kuwait, Sweden, Brazil, and 16 other countries. ...Yan has not been arrested in China.  In December, an official with the Chinese National Narcotics Control Commission told Vice that the US had failed to show that Yan or a codefendant had violated Chinese law.  Moreover, he said, the United States’s “unilateral indictment of Chinese nationals” had caused “practical difficulties” for China in investigating them.    https://opioidinstitute.org/2018/05/24/news-roundup-may-24-2018/