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USA – Fentanyl. Opioid Dealers Embrace the Dark Web to Send Deadly Drugs by Mail

Anonymous online sales are surging, and people are dying. Despite dozens of arrests, new merchants — many based in Asia — quickly pop up.

As the nation’s opioid crisis worsens, the authorities are confronting a resurgent, unruly player in the illicit trade of the deadly drugs, one that threatens to be even more formidable than the cartels.

The internet. (New York Times, 10.06.2017)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/business/dealbook/opioid-dark-web-drug-overdose.html