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Fentanyl's Surge from China To Mexico to St Louis

2022/6/7
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Sean Williams:本期节目探讨了芬太尼在美国的泛滥及其与中国和墨西哥之间的联系。通过对Gan Zhanbing案的分析,揭示了中国制造商与墨西哥贩毒集团合作,通过复杂的洗钱网络将芬太尼及其前体输送至美国。数千名中国籍人士参与其中,美国司法部难以完全掌握其规模。中国政府在其中扮演的角色复杂,既可能故意推动芬太尼进入市场,也可能睁一只眼闭一只眼。2019年后,中国将芬太尼生产转移到墨西哥,并向墨西哥贩毒集团提供技术和设备,导致墨西哥贩毒集团开始自行生产芬太尼,中国则继续供应前体化学品。即使中国停止向美国输送芬太尼,现有的洗钱网络和来自其他国家的芬太尼供应仍然构成威胁。华人移民社区的封闭性及其独特的金融网络,为贩毒集团洗钱提供了便利。 Danny Gold:本期节目还关注了芬太尼在美国街头的蔓延及其造成的严重后果。芬太尼的出现始于2016-2017年,最初用于掺杂海洛因,后来直接被消费者索要。街头贩卖的芬太尼经过多次稀释,纯度很低,但由于缺乏质量控制,过量服用的风险仍然很高。芬太尼在美国各地蔓延,尤其是在贫困社区,并被掺杂在各种毒品中,导致过量服用和死亡人数增加。芬太尼的致命性及其在街头交易中的稀释程度,以及缺乏质量控制导致过量服用风险增加。社区干预措施虽然能够挽救生命,但并不能从根本上解决问题,需要从供应链入手进行打击。

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Gan Zhanbing, a Chinese businessman, establishes connections with Mexican cartels to launder money and traffic fentanyl, leading to his arrest and conviction.

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Over the last three years there's been an explosion of fentanyl on the streets of America and it's led to over 100,000 Americans dying from drug overdoses, the overwhelming majority because of fent. In this episode, Sean lays out the way producers in China have connected with Mexican drug cartels from shipping precursors to laundering money, where Danny speaks on the effects he's seen in the streets of St. Louis.

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