How America's deadly synthetic opioid epidemic is being driven by free market capitalism (by paulconstant)
According to Quinones, the question of who profits from the spread of meth and synthetic opioids like fentanyl isn't as clear-cut as it was in his previous book."Certainly there's an enormous population of people in Mexico that are profiting from it," he said. Producers get the chemicals to manufacture synthetic drugs from China and then they make the drugs in Mexico.
Goldstein interjected to say that the system Quinones is describing"sounds to me like free market capitalism." When one producer found an affordable way to mix their drugs, for instance, everyone followed:"Pretty soon everybody is mixing these powders, one of which is extraordinarily deadly to human beings, in a Magic Bullet blender that you could buy for $29.95 at Target," Quinones said.
From sugary sodas to processed foods to social media and video games,"we are bombarded by legal addictive products from a whole array of corporations we can all probably name," Quinones said, and then illegal drug manufacturers are learning from those addictive behaviors and adapting their systems accordingly.
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