To add to that, what happened is people got hooked on really strong opioids that were made for prescription. That shit used to be widely, widely available, and if you couldn't just get an Rx you could make it from commonly available substances in a WalMart bathroom if you had to.
The government really cracked down on that. Not just the US government, but governments of places where opioids were being mass produced controlled the supply of precursors.
So you have a bunch of addicted people all of the sudden hurting for a fix. They started doing heroin, but the government even cracked down on that. Slash supply and demand made it expensive. So enter fentanyl. Can be mass produced in China and smuggled in. Ridiculously potent, so those shipments go a long way.
Junkies will do anything for a fix. It's absurdly hard to kick.
Uh-huh. Here in Canada, up to 8 mg of codeine can be had over-the-counter (Tylenol 1s). They started tracking this a few years ago, so that people can't go from store to store collecting a million of the things; that's how a lot of people here got hooked.
You can still get T1s over the counter, though. But I doubt they sell it in lots of 100 and 200 any more, like they used to.
Ah, thanks. Good explanation.
To add to that, what happened is people got hooked on really strong opioids that were made for prescription. That shit used to be widely, widely available, and if you couldn't just get an Rx you could make it from commonly available substances in a WalMart bathroom if you had to.
The government really cracked down on that. Not just the US government, but governments of places where opioids were being mass produced controlled the supply of precursors.
So you have a bunch of addicted people all of the sudden hurting for a fix. They started doing heroin, but the government even cracked down on that. Slash supply and demand made it expensive. So enter fentanyl. Can be mass produced in China and smuggled in. Ridiculously potent, so those shipments go a long way.
Junkies will do anything for a fix. It's absurdly hard to kick.
Uh-huh. Here in Canada, up to 8 mg of codeine can be had over-the-counter (Tylenol 1s). They started tracking this a few years ago, so that people can't go from store to store collecting a million of the things; that's how a lot of people here got hooked.
You can still get T1s over the counter, though. But I doubt they sell it in lots of 100 and 200 any more, like they used to.