Inside the fentanyl trade
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Fentanyl kills 200 people a day in America, a deadly epidemic felt throughout the country. We trace the journey of chemicals from China, to the drug labs of Mexico to the streets of the United States. Can the tide be stemmed?
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- Stephen Gibbs, Latin America correspondent, The Times & The Sunday Times, and
- Keiran Southern, West Coast correspondent, The Times & The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:00.0 | Hmm, what's it over there? |
| 0:02.0 | Cheese, yummy? |
| 0:04.0 | It's always hard to resist temptation. |
| 0:06.0 | Why is it sitting on a wooden plank? |
| 0:08.0 | Especially when there's a tasty short-term yield on offer. |
| 0:11.0 | With that bit of wire on it. |
| 0:12.0 | But when it means sacrificing long-term growth, |
| 0:14.6 | but hey, it's cheese. Those who do succumb, |
| 0:17.5 | got to go for it, end up regretting it. Short-term temptation or yield with potential long-term growth. The Scottish |
| 0:25.1 | American Investment Company managed by Bailey Gifford, capital at risk and income not |
| 0:29.4 | guaranteed. Trust in politics is broken. So can we get UK politics working again? |
| 0:35.0 | That was the last time we were happy. 2012. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Bethrigby Sky's political editor. |
| 0:40.0 | Join me every week with Labour's Jess Phillips and Conservative peer Ruth Davidson |
| 0:45.3 | for some electoral dysfunction. |
| 0:47.8 | This idea of nuance is completely their politics. |
| 0:50.2 | Together we'll focus on the policies that could deliver political satisfaction. |
| 0:55.6 | Follow electoral dysfunction wherever you get your podcasts. From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. America is in the grip of the worst drugs crisis it's ever faced. |
| 1:21.0 | More people in the United States between the ages of 18 to 49 die from fentanyl than from guns, car accidents or any other cause. Period. |
| 1:30.0 | The DEA calls fentanyl the single deadliest drug threat our nation has ever encountered. |
| 1:37.0 | What was once an obscure drug to treat pain in end-stage cancer patients has become the leading |
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