Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins
Bloomberg

The opioid’s potency has transformed the global trafficking — and policing — of narcotics. Yan is accused of trafficking fentanyl on an industrial scale out of factories, but the drug's potency makes it as easy as dealing it from a living room. Outside the gates of a residential complex called Oak Bay, a construction frenzy tears up the central Chinese city of Wuhan, a metropolis of 11 million racing to catch up with Beijing and Shanghai. The aural assault of jackhammers and cement trucks fades Read the full story