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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (135425)	9/4/2017 12:11:18 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 219671

The 1971 film "The French Connection" revolved around smuggling 13 kilos of heroin on an ocean liner to the US. Today that quantity of heroin-equivalent can be shipped direct from China to New Hampshire inside a glass vial weighing no more than a US penny - and not much larger than a penny - with a street value of $8.5 million! This glass or plastic vial placed inside other goods from China is completely undetectable by sniffer dogs or other methods. Importation of carfentanil from China According to an Associated Press article, "Chemical weapon for sale: China's unregulated narcotic", fentanyl, carfentanil and other highly potent derivatives of fentanyl are actively marketed by several Chinese chemical companies. Carfentanil was not a controlled substance in China until March 1, 2017, and until then had been manufactured legally and sold openly over the Internet. Authorities in Latvia and Lithuania have reported seizing carfentanil as an illicit drug in the early 2000s. By 2016, the US and Canada started reporting a dramatic increase in shipment of carfentanil and other strong opioid drugs to customers in North America from Chinese chemical supply firms. In June, 2016 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized one kilogram of carfentanil shipped from China in a box labelled "printer accessories". According to the Canada Border Services Agency, the shipment contained 50 million lethal doses of the drug, more than enough carfentanil to wipe out the entire population of Canada, in containers labeled as toner cartridges for Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printers. Allan Lai, an officer-in-charge at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Calgary who helped oversee the criminal investigation said, "With respect to carfentanil, we don't know why a substance of that potency is coming into Canada." - I'll give you one guess. The 2002 Moscow Theater Hostage Siege In 2012, a team of researchers at the British chemical and biological defense laboratories at Porton Down found carfentanil and remifentanil in clothing from two British survivors of the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis and urine from a third survivor. The team concluded that the Russian military used an aerosol mist of carfentanil and remifentanil to subdue Chechen hostage takers. Authors of a previous paper in the Annals of Emergency Medicine surmised from the available evidence that the Moscow emergency services had not been informed of the use of the agent, but were instructed to bring opioid antagonists. Not knowing to expect hundreds of patients exposed to high doses of strong opioids, the emergency workers did not bring enough naloxone or naltrexone (the two most commonly-used opioid antagonists) to counteract the carfentanil and remifentanil and save the lives of many of the victims. 125 people exposed to the gas used in the rescue attempt are confirmed to have died from both respiratory failure and aerosol inhalation during the incident due to medical rescuers having an insufficient quantity of naltrexone. The British researchers say the worst danger to the Russian theater victims would have been apnea (loss of breathing), and that mechanical ventilation and/or treatment with opioid antagonists could have saved many lives.