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Mexico's Cartels Find Another Game Changer in Fentanyl
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Aug 3, 2017 | 08:00 GMT
![Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, are shown at a press conference at the office of the New York Attorney General.](https://worldview.stratfor.com/sites/default/files/styles/2x1_full/public/fentanyl.jpg?itok=NoGJGOJk)
Fentanyl is fairly inexpensive, leading to drug dealers attempting to pass it off as various more expensive narcotics, such as "China White" heroin. If pressed into pill form, it can mimic pharmaceutical opiates such as oxycodone or hydrocodone.
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