#carfentanil

Lethal opioid delivery seized by Finnish customs | Yle Uutiset | yle.fi
▻https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/lethal_opioid_delivery_seized_by_finnish_customs/9728264
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Finnish Customs said Tuesday that the agency had confiscated the highly dangerous drug #carfentanil. Officials intercepted the potent opioid in the post and have warned that merely handling the narcotic could be lethal.

#drogue #finlande

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Amid overdose crisis, China’s opioid producers embrace the Dark Web - The Globe and Mail
▻https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/amid-overdose-crisis-chinas-opioid-producers-embrace-the-dark-web/article35355090
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most of the opioids such as fentanyl and its chemical precursors arrive in small packages through the mail from China, predominantly in the Vancouver area.

(…) a formal intelligence-sharing agreement between the RCMP and Ministry of Public Security.

In exchange for Chinese co-operation to stop the flow of illicit synthetic opioids, Beijing expects the RCMP to provide intelligence and help track down Chinese nationals living in Canada who are accused of economic crimes such as money laundering, bribery and theft.

Chief Supt. Doran said Chinese authorities are just as frustrated as the Mounties in trying to arrest the opioid dealers who are embracing the Dark Web and sending the deadly drugs to Canada.

#dark_web #canada #chine #drogue #fentanyl #carfentanil

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Blotter carfentanil being sold on Winnipeg streets as ’drop dead,’ police say - Manitoba - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/carfentanil-blotter-drop-dead-winnipeg-1.4153544
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Blotter carfentanil — small pieces of paper infused with a synthetic opioid about 100 times stronger than fentanyl — is being sold on the street as “drop dead,” Winnipeg Police Chief Danny Smyth told the Winnipeg Police Board on Friday.

Smyth said Winnipeg appears to be unique among Canadian cities in that there appears to be a market for carfentanil, whose intended use involves the tranquilization of elephants or large ungulates such as moose. 

While the opioid has appeared in other cities, sometimes as a replacement for less potent substances, there is a small population of drug users that actively seeks the drug here, the chief said.

#buvards #carfentanil #drop_dead #drogues #mort #canada

The drug crisis is now pushing up death rates for almost all groups of Americans - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-drug-crisis-is-now-pushing-up-death-rates-for-almost-all-groups-of-americans/2017/06/09/971d8424-4aa1-11e7-a186-60c031eab644_story.html
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The opioid epidemic that has ravaged life expectancy among economically stressed white Americans is taking a rising toll among blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, driving up the overall rate of premature death among Americans in the prime of their lives.

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(à noter dans ce dernier graphique, la solution subtile au problème de la base 0 du graphique)

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Elephant tranquiliser behind US drug death epidemic now hitting UK streets, police warn | The Independent
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/fentanyl-carfentanil-carfentanyl-elephant-tranquiliser-uk-streets-dru
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#Carfentanil - used by vets to sedate elephants - and chemical cousin #fentanyl - with US street names ’drop dead’ and ’serial killer’ - are feared to be behind a spate of deaths in the UK

#drogues #UK #Europe

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This drug dealer’s heroin was so powerful that it led to 26 overdoses in a single day - The Washington Post
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/01/12/this-drug-dealers-heroin-was-so-powerful-that-it-led-to-26-overdoses
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Bruce Lamar Griggs, 22, pleaded guilty on Monday to distribution of heroin, about six months after 26 people overdosed in Huntington, a city in the southwest corner of West Virginia. The 911 calls came within hours of one another, the majority of which concerned overdoses in and around one apartment complex.

Federal prosecutors say Griggs, known as “Benz” or “Ben,” admitted supplying heroin to all 26 people, who overdosed immediately after taking the drugs. Laboratory tests of blood and urine samples showed traces not only of heroin, but also of #fentanyl and #carfentanil

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#Carfentanil on the Darknet: China Denies Being the Main Supplier
▻https://darknetmarkets.co/carfentanil-darknet-china-denies-main-supplier
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In a letter to the White House and DEA, Beijing denied being the main source of fentanyl analogs. Such claims “lack the support of sufficient numbers of actual, confirmed cases,” China’s National Narcotics Control Commission told DEA’s Beijing field office. They asked the US to provide substantial evidence about China’s role in opioid importation. China similarly spoke about the lack help they received in their war against Ketamine. “China looks forward to further practical action taken by the U.S. to jointly promote the international control of ketamine,” the narcotics commission said in another letter to AP.

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Pills that kill: why are thousands dying from #fentanyl abuse? | Global | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/dec/11/pills-that-kill-why-are-thousands-dying-from-fentanyl-abuse-
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By the time the epidemic finally started to get public and political attention, more than two million Americans were addicted to opioid painkillers. Those who finally managed to shake off the drug often did so only at the cost of jobs, relationships and homes.

After the government finally began to curb painkiller prescriptions, making it more difficult for addicts to find the pills and forcing up black market prices, Mexican drug cartels stepped in to flood the US with the real thing – heroin – in quantities not seen since the 1970s. But, as profitable as the resurgence of heroin is to the cartels, it is labour intensive and time-consuming to grow and harvest poppies. Then there are the risks of smuggling bulky quantities of the drug into the US.

The ingredients for fentanyl, on the other hand, are openly available in China and easily imported ready for manufacture.

#pharma #antidouleurs #répression #drogue #chine #mexique #carfentanil (et aussi #Prince, une des premières victimes de ce #marché_noir)

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’Weapons-grade opioid’ carfentanil detected in Waterloo region, drug taskforce warns - Kitchener-Waterloo - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/carfentanil-found-in-waterloo-region-1.3883149
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the #fentanyl wave has been coming into Ontario and this is just a part of that wave in our view," Larkin said in a phone interview during a break from a conference of Ontario police leaders in Barrie.

Often when people use drugs, “they do not know what they’re ingesting. This is a prime example,” he said.

“We look at the magnitude of the potential for serious injury and likely death when somebody uses #carfentanil unknowingly. That’s the challenge, is that people do not that they are ingesting this,”

#drogues #canada #santé_publique

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Enlisting Beijing to help stop fentanyl exports won’t be easy - The Globe and Mail
▻http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/enlisting-beijing-to-help-stop-fentanyl-exports-wont-be-easy/article33207872

For students of Chinese history, there’s irony in Canada’s demand on moral grounds that China suppress the export of a synthetic opioid.

(…) This history could explain the reported lack of enthusiasm by Chinese police to respond vigorously to Canada’s request that Beijing close down fentanyl production and export. China doesn’t have a significant fentanyl problem domestically. It deals with the problem by executing drug smugglers and dealers and by imprisoning illegal-drug users for a program of forced rehabilitation that they or their families pay for. In a police state that keeps close tabs on all citizens, this policy is relatively effective (although amphetamine abuse is increasing in Chinese cities, and heroin injection in the mountainous Golden Triangle border regions has led to something of a rural crisis of largely untreated HIV/AIDS cases).

Beijing is unlikely to aggressively suppress this lucrative export for the sake of international public interest alone. Undoubtedly China’s fentanyl manufacturers are already issuing the necessary bribes to keep their operations free from government harassment. Moreover, Chinese culture suggests police there are only likely to actively suppress fentanyl exports if Ottawa offers an incentive to do so. (...)

But another condition of this pact could be more co-operation with Chinese authorities tracking down Chinese nationals in Canada who Beijing wants to see returned to China.

#Chine #canada #drogue #santé_publique #fentanyl #carfentanil #guerres_de_l'opium

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’I’m smarter than they are’: Underground chemist says police losing fentanyl battle - British Columbia - CBC News
▻http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fentanyl-beeker-underground-producer-1.3868579
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[the underground chemist Beeker] says police are far behind when it comes to tracking drugs throughout the province, and he says many local chemists are synthesizing drugs with materials ordered from China.

“I’m smarter than they are ... all of us chemists are smarter than the police, and we’re gonna stay ahead of them,” he coldly tells filmmaker Robert Osborne. "And if they find out one of the ones we are making, we’ll make a different one — and this will go on forever."

Recent news does seem to prove him right: even deadlier opioids have already hit the streets in Vancouver. #Carfentanil has turned up in several instances, according to Vancouver police — and it’s 100 times more potent than #fentanyl.

Deadly carfentanil worries health officials

“Fentanyl is soon to be obsolete. It’s just not going to be out there because there’s much more profitable drugs — it doesn’t matter about better or safer — much more profitable drugs and molecules are on the way,” Beeker says in the film.

“They’re in the mail right now.”

#drogue #chimie #canada #film #documentaire (sort le 1er décembre)
▻http://www.cbc.ca/firsthand/episodes/unstoppable-the-fentanyl-epidemic

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Ordering deadly drugs from China is easy - Salon.com
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/11/03/ordering-deadly-drugs-from-china-is-easy

A few thousand dollars, a few minutes and a decent internet connection are all it takes to source #carfentanil online from multiple Chinese vendors.

Two Associated Press reporters, working independently, documented multiple offers from the companies listed below to export carfentanil, a substance so toxic it has been researched as a chemical weapon and described as a terrorist threat.

(...)

“Carfentanil is 10000 times more potent than m.o.r.p.h.i.n.e and 5000 times more potent than pharmaceutical grade (100% pure) h.e.r.o.i.n according to the illicit drug conversion table that issued by China Food and Drug Administration,” the company said in its product listings.

#drogues #santé #chine #ecommerce (à noter comme #morphine et #heroin sont des tags dangereux, tandis que #carfentanil peut être écrit sans points intermédiaires)

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