That's exactly the case. Dope article in Esquire this month: "El Chapo and the secret history of the Heroin Crisis" -- linked below.
But it's the profits that will make fentanyl the new crack cocaine, which created the enormous wealth of the Mexican cartels in the eighties and nineties. A kilo of fentanyl can be stepped on sixteen to twenty-four times to create an astounding return on investment of $1.3 million per kilo, compared with $271,000 per kilo of heroin.
Author's quote: "If Heroin is an epidemic, Fentanyl will be the plague"
Great read: http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a46918/heroin-mexico-el-chapo-cartels-don-winslow/
That was an excellent read and it proving to be correct. New story today about skyrocketing ODs in Louisville from Fentanyl laced heroin.
http://insiderlouisville.com/metro/...ail&utm_term=0_5ccd89012b-d2478522fe-70788801

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