By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Fentanyl has been used as a powerful additive to heroin, and its use has been killing Americans.
Now the DEA is in China to help the government crack down on the manufacture of fentanyl, Chicago Sun Times reports.
While Mexico is the biggest heroin supplier, China is the leading supplier of fentanyl that is added to heroin to increase it strength, said Dennis Wichern, the special agent in charge of the DEA in Chicago and a five-state region.
“In the last three years we’ve seen an explosion of fentanyl,” Wichern said. “In Chicago, heroin- and fentanyl-related investigations have been priority No. 1.”
The DEA said the Chinese government is cooperating with U.S. drug agents.
“They recognize they have a problem with the synthetic drug explosion, as I call it,” Wichern said.
“The Chinese are all aboard. They’ve outlawed it. We’re working with them,” Wichern said. “We have agents on the ground every day in Beijing and Hong Kong working with the Chinese to stop this.”
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