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Inside the fentanyl trade powering the world’s deadliest drug crisis

By Stephen Gibbs and Keiran Southern
The Times·
23 mins to read

What started as prescription painkiller is now the cause of a public health emergency. Where does it come from? Stephen Gibbs and Keiran Southern follow the money from China via Mexican gangs to the streets and suburbs of America.

It was a distinctive smell, similar to vinegar, seeping from the new-built home at the top of the hill that prompted a resident in Tijuana’s Lomas del Valle neighbourhood to make an anonymous call to the police in October last year.

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