Well, there's a journalist that has really gotten deep into this the way nobody else has, has traveled all over the world, trying to understand where is it coming from, you know, how is it getting in?

What are they trying to do to stop it?

What's happening to people involved in it?

He's written an incredible book, Fentanyl Inc,

and he is everywhere trying to bring attention to this incredible issue.

They like this.

Ben Westhoff.

Ben is an award-winning investigative reporter.

An award-winning investigative reporter whose books are taught around the country

that have been translated around the world.

In his new book, Fentonll Inc. journalist Ben Westoff maps the terrifying trail of a drug that was developed in 1959. The who died from fentanyl in 2010 before people were much talking about it before I knew

what it was. What I was interested in doing as a journalist was tracking how these drugs get into this country.

I decided to infiltrate a Chinese drug lab where they made fentanyl.

I was the first journalist to do this,

and it was a pretty dumb thing to do.

It was a whole thing.

I like wrote him on the internet.

I made a fake email address, and I said, I'm a drug drug dealer I'd like to visit your lab may I do that

when I come to China and they said yeah what in 2021 a hundred and ten thousand

people died from drug overdose tests, with 72% of them coming from synthetic opioids like fentanyl.

Any pill or any powder that you get on the black market could have fentanyl from cocaine, heroin, meth, to even fake prescription pills that are pressed to look exactly like a percocet or a

Xanax. That's how Prince died, that's how Tom Petty and the rapper

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