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Fentanyl, Inc. : how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic, Ben Westhoff
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- Summary
- An undercover investigation into the synthetic-drug epidemic. A new group of chemicals is radically transforming the recreational-drug landscape. Known as novel psychoactive substances (NPS), they range from so-called 'legal highs' like Spice, to synthetic opioids - most famously, the deadly fentanyl. Designed to replicate the effects of established drugs like cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana, and heroin, NPS are synthesised in laboratories. They are cheap to produce and easy to transport. They are also extremely potent and often deadly. Originally developed for medicinal purposes, and then hijacked by rogue chemists, who change their molecular structures to stay ahead of the law, these chemicals' effects can be impossible to predict. What we do know is that they have triggered the biggest drug epidemic that America has ever seen, and which is now spreading internationally. In Fentanyl, Inc., award-winning journalist Ben Westhoff goes undercover to investigate the shadowy world of synthetic drugs - becoming, in the process, the first journalist to infiltrate a Chinese fentanyl lab. He tracks down the drug baron in New Zealand who unintentionally helped to start the synthetic-drug revolution; prowls St. Louis streets with a former fentanyl dealer to understand how the epidemic started; and chronicles the lives of addicts and dealers, families of victims, law enforcement officers, and underground drug-awareness organisers in the US and Europe. Fentanyl, Inc. is essential reading on a global calamity we are only just beginning to understand
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 341 pages
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019
- Isbn
- 9781925849523
- Label
- Fentanyl, Inc. : how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic
- Title
- Fentanyl, Inc.
- Title remainder
- how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic
- Statement of responsibility
- Ben Westhoff
- Subject
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- Drug addiction -- United States
- Drug contamination
- Drug control
- Drug development -- United States -- History
- Drug factories
- Drug traffic
- Drugs -- Overdose
- Drugs -- Toxicology
- Drugs of abuse -- History
- Designer drugs
- Fentanyl -- Economic aspects
- Fentanyl -- History
- Fentanyl -- Physiological aspects
- Fentanyl -- Sociological aspects
- Opioid abuse
- Pharmaceutical industry -- China
- Pharmaceutical industry -- China -- Government relations
- Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Fentanyl
- Drug abuse -- Fentanyl
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- An undercover investigation into the synthetic-drug epidemic. A new group of chemicals is radically transforming the recreational-drug landscape. Known as novel psychoactive substances (NPS), they range from so-called 'legal highs' like Spice, to synthetic opioids - most famously, the deadly fentanyl. Designed to replicate the effects of established drugs like cocaine, ecstasy, marijuana, and heroin, NPS are synthesised in laboratories. They are cheap to produce and easy to transport. They are also extremely potent and often deadly. Originally developed for medicinal purposes, and then hijacked by rogue chemists, who change their molecular structures to stay ahead of the law, these chemicals' effects can be impossible to predict. What we do know is that they have triggered the biggest drug epidemic that America has ever seen, and which is now spreading internationally. In Fentanyl, Inc., award-winning journalist Ben Westhoff goes undercover to investigate the shadowy world of synthetic drugs - becoming, in the process, the first journalist to infiltrate a Chinese fentanyl lab. He tracks down the drug baron in New Zealand who unintentionally helped to start the synthetic-drug revolution; prowls St. Louis streets with a former fentanyl dealer to understand how the epidemic started; and chronicles the lives of addicts and dealers, families of victims, law enforcement officers, and underground drug-awareness organisers in the US and Europe. Fentanyl, Inc. is essential reading on a global calamity we are only just beginning to understand
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Westhoff, Ben
- Dewey number
- 362.293
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Drug control
- Drugs
- Drug contamination
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Pharmaceutical industry
- Drug development
- Drugs
- Drugs of abuse
- Drug factories
- Drug abuse
- Fentanyl
- Fentanyl
- Fentanyl
- Fentanyl
- Fentanyl
- Opioid abuse
- Drug traffic
- Designer drugs
- Drug addiction
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Fentanyl, Inc. : how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic, Ben Westhoff
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066045640
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 341 pages
- Isbn
- 9781925849523
- Lccn
- be2019036012
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1105148992
- Label
- Fentanyl, Inc. : how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic, Ben Westhoff
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066045640
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 341 pages
- Isbn
- 9781925849523
- Lccn
- be2019036012
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1105148992
Subject
- Drug addiction -- United States
- Drug contamination
- Drug control
- Drug development -- United States -- History
- Drug factories
- Drug traffic
- Drugs -- Overdose
- Drugs -- Toxicology
- Drugs of abuse -- History
- Designer drugs
- Fentanyl -- Economic aspects
- Fentanyl -- History
- Fentanyl -- Physiological aspects
- Fentanyl -- Sociological aspects
- Opioid abuse
- Pharmaceutical industry -- China
- Pharmaceutical industry -- China -- Government relations
- Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Fentanyl
- Drug abuse -- Fentanyl
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