S19 Ep112: Lethal Doses: The Story Behind The Godfather of Fentanyl w/ John Madinger
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🗓️ 17 September 2024
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Summary
On a cold afternoon in February 1991, a frightening new drug hit the streets of New York City, a synthetic narcotic marketed in packets labeled “Tango & Cash.” As police scrambled to warn heroin users of the danger, the overdose victims began piling up in hospital emergency rooms and county morgues across three states. The clandestine chemist was George Erik Marquardt. Starting at just twelve years old, Marquardt used his extraordinary talents to make every illegal drug in the book, from bootleg booze to heroin. He brewed LSD for Timothy Leary and the Grateful Dead, methamphetamine for outlaw motorcycle gangs, nerve gas for Idaho Nazis, and even life-saving AZT for AIDS patients. But when that ice-cold son of a bitch turned to fentanyl, thousands of Americans would die.
On today's TCT, John Madinger, Author of "Lethal Doses: The Story Behind The Godfather Of Fentanyl" joins us to talk about the journey of the man nicknamed, "Squeak", discuss his motivations, his lack of moral center, and the thrill he got when it came to manufacturing synthetic drugs, and what Marquardt might have done in another lifetime under better circumstances.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome and the best in True Crime Podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host Tim Dennis. |
| 0:26.0 | You know, there is a war on drugs. There has been a war on drugs ever since the 80s. It was Ronald Reagan who started the war on drugs. |
| 0:35.0 | Lately the war on drugs. |
| 0:36.0 | Lately the drug that is the scourge of America is fentanyl. |
| 0:41.7 | It seems like this is popped up out of nowhere. In fact, if you believe any |
| 0:45.8 | administration in the last 8 to 12 years, you believe that it's come from |
| 0:50.1 | Mexico and that it's come over that southern border and that that is |
| 0:55.3 | where it's come from and that that is where it's being pushed from and that this is |
| 1:01.1 | a relatively new problem. |
| 1:03.0 | It isn't. |
| 1:04.0 | As a matter of fact, it first hit the streets |
| 1:07.0 | 1991. |
| 1:09.0 | We're 1990. |
| 1:11.0 | We'll have to ask our guests John Mattinger. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm trying to remember off top of my head. It's an old problem. It's fact, it's a medical situation that had a bit of a, like most illegal drug issues, a medical solution |
| 1:31.2 | that gets turned into something evil. It gets broke bad, so to speak. |
| 1:37.2 | A lot of times you get a chemist who's curious and decides, you know what what I can find a good or a bad solution from it. |
| 1:46.4 | Chemists don't know good or bad. They just know right? They find a chemical |
| 1:52.0 | solution they play with chemicals, and there is no good or bad when it comes to playing with chemicals. |
| 1:58.0 | What's interesting about this book that we're going to talk about today, |
| 2:00.4 | lethal doses, the story behind the Godfather of fentanyl, a wonderful book that our |
| 2:05.3 | guest John Mattinger has wrote, and I highly recommend you read this book. |
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