All of the popular synthetic opiates are synthesized using thebaine. Where does thebaine come from? You guessed it: poppy plants. American heroin is a dying trade. The majority of stuff being sold as heroin today is mixtures of fentanyl; sometimes multiple types and sometimes with heroin. Fentanyl is more profitable, more addictive, and takes up 2% of the volume of a comparable heroin batch (50x potency) making it much easier to smuggle, both in the mail from China and over the southern border.
All of the popular synthetic opiates are synthesized using thebaine. Where does thebaine come from? You guessed it: poppy plants. American heroin is a dying trade. The majority of stuff being sold as heroin today is mixtures of fentanyl; sometimes multiple types and sometimes with heroin. Fentanyl is more profitable, more addictive, and takes up 2% of the volume of a comparable heroin batch (50x potency) making it much easier to smuggle, both in the mail from China and over the southern border.
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