The Last Days of Heroin: Fentanyl’s Rise and the Pattern It Represents Five years ago, British Columbia saw a change. People who use drugs in the Canadian province started overdosing in higher numbers, as fentanyl arrived into the unregulated opioi…

Myanmar, Myanmar Opium Production Drops as Meth Surges, UN Says  BANGKOK - Opium production in Myanmar, the world’s second-largest cultivator of the poppies that are the base ingredient for heroin, has dropped, according to a United Nations st…

China Turns Blind Eye To Lucrative Cartel Chemical Trade, DEA Says Agency experts tell VICE World News that China and Mexico are not doing enough to help stem the global trade in the chemicals used to make fentanyl and meth. (VICE World News, UK, 0…

Mexiko. Poppy farmers’ ultimatum: ‘Get the soldiers out and leave our crops alone’ Growers in Guerrero say they're already struggling due to low opium paste prices. (Mexico Daily News, 27.01.2021) https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/poppy-farmers-ult…

Mexiko. Violent criminal groups are eroding Mexico’s authority and claiming more territory (…) Organized crime here once meant a handful of cartels shipping narcotics up the highways to the United States. In a fundamental shift, the criminals of to…

Mutmaßlicher Chef von größtem asiatischen Drogenkartell festgenommen  Er gilt als Asiens »El Chapo«: Tse Chi Lop soll das größte Drogenkartell Asiens anführen. Jetzt wurde der Chinese am Flughafen in Amsterdam festgenommen. (Spiegel online, 24…