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When you live in San Diego and Tijuana, especially in San Diego, you go across that border like it's one big city. And you don't realize the privilege you have in doing that. It just seems to be tedious because they put this border there. I had an aunt whose house was on a mountainside in Tijuana. We'd call her and ask, 'What's the border look like? The line's at least two hours right now. Don't even try. Wait until it dies down. Now there's a radio that every 15 minutes tells you how many cars there are. And this is before the DEA and everybody put up on the American side so the border is long now on both sides. It used to be that the only borderline you would make was coming from Tijuana, Mexico, into San Diego. And in those days, when Tijuana and San Diego were smaller towns, you guys and your families were really part of an elite? Well, yes. We all went to the country club in Tijuana. And then, Tijuana was probably half a million, a million people, at the most. And most of those people. Our uncles. Who you married was very important, who you hung out with, who was at the country club. Those families were very special, and it was a very small town when it came to the privileged crowd. And you all went to the same high school in San Diego? Well, most of us all went to Augustine. It's an all-boys school. Most of the girls went to Our Lady of Peace. If you went to school in Tijuana, you went to. There are other ones, but at that time everybody went there. For example, my father went to Augustine, my little brother went to Augustine, I went to Augustine. And almost everybody of the elite from Tijuana went to these schools. So, if you got pulled over by a cop, they'd either recognize you, or as soon as they saw your license, they'd know who your father was or your uncle was or somebody like that. So, pretty much at that age in those days, you had free license to do whatever you wanted to. Even if you were caught drunk, even if you hit a telephone pole, they'd call your parents or your uncle first. They wouldn't put you in the same prison cell or the same jail cell in the county jail. They would take you to the office and then call your parents or your uncle and say, 'Let's fix this. We have a problem here. Let's take care of this business here,' without making a big thing out of it. So you were very, very privileged. That's something that's almost unheard of now. And eventually you became an attorney? I got tired of being a stockbroker, went to law school and became an attorney. My intention was to become a securities attorney. As a stockbroker, I'd see them. They were getting paid as much as me, or more, and weren't out doing as much hustling as I was. I was living in planes and hotels at the time. I opened my office right next to an MCC, right across the street from the federal courthouse, so it was just perfect. That's the best location there is in San Diego to have a law office for criminal defense--ninety-eight percent of my cases were drug traffickers, drug trafficking charges. So you had ninety-eight percent drug trafficking cases, because that's what was in the MCC? So then they send me a client. They tell me how much to charge, because they already interviewed this client. They know what he owns, what he has, how much cash is available. And so they tell me by phone, 'Steve, just charge him ten grand. It won't be a problem. And, lo and behold, he comes with a shoebox, puts it on my desk, and he goes 'Count it. I got that aroma of dirt, so that money must have been buried. And in fact, later on, when we tried to use money counters, a lot of times it wouldn't work because the money was either wet or it had dirt on it because of the ways they hide the money and where they hide the money. And from then, I never looked back. It was big clients. Cash coming in. And it was all drug trafficking. I knew when it was the pot season and I was going to get border bust cases, I had to charge less. If I knew it was coke season, it was going to be more coke cases, and I could charge more. Then when crystal meth cases started coming in, they were so penalized I knew I could charge even more. They were usually were white guys, at that time. And the coke guys were either Mexican or Colombians. And the pot guys were almost always Mexican. And so we knew how to price. We knew the seasons. We knew the dry seasons. We learned the pot world and the cocaine world and the drug world just by being attorneys, because we could tell after a while, cyclically, what kind of clients we were getting. And that's how I started. That how I started being a defense attorney. So you're making good money, and a lot of clients coming in? Very good money. And you started traveling into Mexico? Well, first I started with Colombia. A lot of them would say, 'Okay. If you need that kind of money, it's not a problem, but you need to fly to Cali or Medellin or Bogota and meet my brother or my father or my wife or my sister and talk to them. Tell them exactly. Take the paperwork. Show them what's going on. Plus, you're going to save my life, so they know I didn't steal this. They'll know how the bust went down. To understand that they didn't get ripped off? And so I flew to Cali, Colombia. I get there and I have a room. I stay the first night. It was great. Hey, I'm going to Colombia and this is exciting. I'm young and I'm getting a lot of money and this is really cool stuff. This is what you dream about in law school. So I get there. The second day they pick me up, take me in a cab, put me in another car, put this black thing around my eyes like a bandage, and tie it. And they go, 'We're sorry. I hope you understand. Something in me knew. I was never really scared. I was an attorney trying to help them. Why would they hurt me? And they put me in a car. They go, 'Now don't get worried. We're going put you in a helicopter and you're going to hear the thing and we're going to go to my uncle's ranch. I don't even know why they call it a ranch. It looked like a mansion. It had like a little miniature zoo and it was just fabulous. It was like the 'Lives of the Rich and Famous,' and more. Just incredibly beautiful homes. But they call them 'ranches. Meanwhile the person's just sitting there. Very unemotional, just looking at you and studying you. They know they got you. You're out in the middle of nowhere. If you're a fed or something, you're never going to go back, but maybe they'll let you go back. They're not going to say anything. So I stayed there for about four, five days, and then went back. He had already cut a deal for ten years. There were nine or twelve of them--I can't really remember--in the case and it was a package deal, which they all must sign or nobody signs and they all go to trial. It's a package deal. It's not individual. And he told me 'Any year you get me less than ten years, I'll give you a million dollars, up to five million. And if not, I didn't lose anything. I got a beautiful trip. And lo and behold, the day of pleading comes. And I hold out. So everybody's totally pissed off, including the US Attorney, the judge. Everybody's going berserk. Now you're talking nine trials--one trial with nine co-defendants, nine top attorneys. You're talking a month, six weeks, a two-month trial, for sure. Nobody wants that. The US Attorney's Office is just, like, yelling at me. Finally, we agree upon eight years. So everybody got 10 years and my client got eight. And this same client later on facilitated me in my other ventures. The big boys had talked with each other inside MCC that I could be trusted. So now I was flying to Culiacan in Mexico. Tell me about Culiacan. The drug traffickers, Felix Gallardo, Caro Quintero, all the big boys that are said to be big boys from Culiacan in Sinaloa. There's a place called Tierra Blanca--White Dirt? But what they mean by it is that there's so much cocaine being trafficked at Tierra Blanca that it's called 'the white town. So, now I'm going down there and I'm meeting people. I'm also going down to the prisons in Mexico to meet some of the very top cartel members that are still running the cartel from inside. They have these beautiful cells. But they have 12 of them. One is a dining room. One is a theater room, and I'm talking high-tech theater stuff. That was one cell. The other cell was for a party. One cell was for the lover, the other cell was for the wife. It's just immaculate. They have their own rose garden. They were paying the right people to live very nice. So now I'm staying with these people. I'm like almost one of them. And my whole thing at this time was to get clients, because these guys have guys going down all the time. You talked again about contracts, about moving a load from Colombia or from Mexico. Well, the load is a whole different animal, and it depends on what kind of load. Coke is worked one way, pot is worked another way, crystal meth is worked another way, heroin is worked another way. I really worked pot and coke. A cocaine load, obviously, originates in Colombia. And if you go backwards, the load's already facilitated to you in the United States. New York has the highest price. As it goes to New York and other places, it gets more expensive. So the Colombian will tell me, 'I have kilos or kilos or kilos. So usually it's kilos--half a ton, a little less. You'll make bucks a kilo. Don't be doing that to me. I've got to pay my people off. It's not worth it to me. You reach a price. So now I make a deal. You're going to front me that cocaine, because nobody can buy kilos. If you get a client that can buy kilos and pay you at the same time, it's Uncle Sam who is buying it from you. You're going to get caught at the same time. Nobody does that. Nobody has that kind of cash available. Or if they do, they're not going to move it. People are buying from 5, 50, To me, it's on credit. Now I make a contract. Let's say you're the Colombian. I make a contract with you. I need seven days to move it and have the money here, in LA, back to you. Let's say the people that moved it for me had clients. This guy's going to buy 50, this guy's going to buy 10, and my best client is going to buy The shit that got all smashed up is what the crack dealers will buy to make crack out of it. So you have different clients for different type of product. The kilos come stamped. The best was Rolex. They used to come back with a stamp from Colombia stamped Rolex. Ones were stamped with Clinton, ones were stamped with Bush. Sometimes it got crushed, though. So that stuff people didn't really want to buy you sold to the crack dealers because they don't care. They're going to break it down anyway, and make crack with it. So now you make the deal. You're going to sell it and resell it, work it yourself. You've got three days. Now I have five days to just sell my stuff, so they're giving you half a ton, kilos, on credit, for five days. And I have to have that cash back in five days. Sometimes a load goes down. You'd better have the indictment. You'd better have everything that that client, the guy that went down with it, to show the Colombian, 'That load got busted. Here it is. I make sure he doesn't snitch, make sure that everything he said is true, the amounts of kilos. And if he's going to snitch, don't say, 'I'm working for the cartel. So as soon as he's done being debriefed, I'm calling the cartel and letting them know what he got debriefed about. So that's if you get it in LA. You can get it in Mexico, probably about half the price in Mexico. But then you've still got the transportation cost to get it to the border and jump it. The other way is for you to go to Colombia and get it. That's the best way, if you have the means to do it. And the means to do it, for example, in my case, was. And the first time we did it, we did it for three tons. You go down there, and there's different ways. It sounds like a lot of money, but there's a lot that happens and a lot of people you've got to pay between getting it in Colombia that they're not going to give it to you in Colombia, and I'll explain that to you, to get it to the United States. That's a long process. But you go down there. You negotiate the price. But it's very, very low. There's so much coke, they have hoards of it. Or you go, 'Look. My boat can take three tons. Half of it will be yours; half of it'll be mine. I will move your ton and a half and sell it. And I will sell my load. When it's all done and sold, I give you your money. I keep my money. And that's it. It's not really free, because you're going to spend most of your money transporting and paying to get it to the United States. So that's another way of doing it. A lot of times they'll go, 'Okay. If it moves up there, we're staying at that price. That happened to us once. It sounds like a commodities business. It is a commodities business. It is exactly a commodities business, but you're not moving pork and you're not moving cows and you're not moving petroleum. You're actually moving coke, in that case, or pot in another case. It is a commodity, especially with the cocaine business. It is a commodity. In my case, we took two boats, and they flew their planes out to a place called the Scorpion Triangle, which is about three hundred miles in international waters, in front of Panama. They bombarded the kilos. They seal them in a way that they can take the shock and they won't burst open, and they're also waterproof. It looked like we're fishing out there. Our men, our captains, are actually out there fishing. They dump the loads into the ocean and go out in to pick it up--put it in the hull, and then dump all the fish we're catching. We make it look as good as possible. And you have a decoy boat. So one boat picks up and fishes. The other one's fishing. If, for any chance, there's a Coast Guard coming--because usually it's the US that'll bust you--if you see a Coast Guard coming or something, and submarines have done the busts sometimes--that decoy starts hauling ass. Everybody goes after that boat. That other ones goes and just finds a cove or something, somewhere to hide out of international waters. So that's the way we would do it. Then you bring that boat up. Again, you pay somebody not to look at the radar for a certain amount of time at a certain hour at a certain day. He charges very much, and sometimes they won't do it on credit. Sometimes you've had to pay him up front. You'd better have everything and everybody already set all the way through the chain, all the way to L. That means you'd better have everybody paid, from interception to federales to Mexican marines--everybody paid along the coast--stashers, protection, everything. Because now it better work like a Swiss clock. Nothing better go wrong. And it always does, but you know that, your idea is to run it. So you've got money out there already. And now it gets dumped. Now you load it. And you bring it all the way up, in my case, out to Rosarito, about three miles out. You bring it to shore in Zodiacs, to a very affluent mansion, to a very dignified person that's above suspicion. And we stash it there. We still got everybody paid off. We got the Mexican marines that patrol Rosarito and Encinada and those areas paid off. We got air surveillance paid off. We got the patrol cars that are going to carry some of it. We got the truckers that are going to come in. The patrol cars? What are you talking about? Federale caminos. Usually, you don't pay the driver--you pay the comandante. And when we get into the pot, we'll have exactly how we pay the army to bring in airplanes into a clandestine field. We've done that before too. That's another way. But the first time I did it in a big way was through boats. If you're going to bring it in to Tijuana, you've have to pay the Arellanos. That's their property. That's their place, and you've have to tell them, 'I'm bringing in so much. What are you going to charge me? They moved to Tijuana and had very good contacts that could insure your load would be safe. But you had to pay for it, obviously. Usually you already dealt with them. You don't arrive with the load. You've already talked to them, and usually you've told them it's a little less. Or sometimes you're honest, if they're going to be present. And you don't know if they are or not. That's another risk you take. But a lot of times it's 'la bravada,' it's called. You don't tell them. And you hope everybody kept quiet and you hope nobody that's working for you has ties to the Arellanos. The biggest problem is somebody saying something stupid, somebody opening their mouth, in other words. So almost like an insurance company? They would insure that you would be safe. Yes, but an insurance company doesn't hurt you or cause you harm if you don't pay. They just bring a lawsuit. The Arellanos are very amicable people, very fair people. If you let them know you're going to bring a load, they'll even help you bring the load in. However, if you don't and they find out, they'll probably kill you or kill someone of your family. The two most dangerous points is when you receive it in the water or the plane comes in from Colombia, and the second most dangerous point is getting it across the border. And everything has a cost. For example, if I drop a load in Mexico and it gets busted, usually I can figure out a way to pay the right person to get my load back. But that was more money I had to spend. That's because you'd better have a million in cash for emergencies. Two million dollars you pay to captains. And it's not just the captain. It's him and his crew. There's got to be an engineer on there, and a navigator, and a mechanic. What happens when you cross the border? Most of the loads you bust are pot. Twenty percent of your cars are going to get busted at the border. The other eighty percent is going to get through. I know that, because that's how I used to do it. I used to send 12 cars at a time. The way I figured, as long as six cars--fifty percent--got through, I was making a good profit. I'd bring in cars from the gangbangers, stolen cars, and I'd make them legitimate in Mexico from junkyards. I had a guy who actually trained the dog for the DEA, who would make sure that his dogs were trained not to smell my loads. I'd just flood the thing. I'm only one of hundreds that would do that. It's the cost of business. You're making so much money that it's a cost of business. A lot of times, you do go broke, though. There is that risk. Not every drug dealer is rich, and not every drug dealer stays rich. I want to make sure that's clear, so that kids don't think they can get into this business and they're going to get rich. That's not the way it works. It takes a long time to make real money in this business. It takes a long time, it's very risky, and it's very hard. It takes investment. It's a business. It takes know-how. Just because you become a drug dealer does not mean you make money. A lot of times you lose your ass and you're broke, and you're selling your legitimate stuff to pay off the load you lost. You said before that you called yourself a 'junior. The Arellanos were very entrepreneurial in that they lured these kids into working the trade. And they had contacts with the comandantes. They had contacts with top people that they could pay off. For example, a comandante doesn't have to pay off his soldiers. What he can say is, 'Next week we're going to have combat practice and then go north,' because you're bringing in your load through the south. It's above suspicion. You pay that general or that comandante. He takes his troops out to the sticks to do their little mission practice or whatever during the time you're bringing in that load. But unfortunately, there are different people from. So, depending on where you're bringing your load in, you've got to take care of these groups. Sometimes one group, sometimes all, depending. But by the time you get working well, you've already met everybody and everybody knows everybody. It's a very small circle. Everybody knows everybody. And that's where the problems start occurring, because before it was the drug dealer who lived and went to those restaurants, to those clubs. And the juniors and their families went to those restaurants and to those clubs--separated. When the juniors became involved, they started mixing. People didn't like that. People from good families started getting killed. For the first time, the heat started coming down on the government, from people that had a voice. And that's what started this big trend of real heat. Everything started coming out to the open. Because now real people, powerful, legitimate people, were bringing in heat to tell the government, 'What the hell are you doing about this problem? Now they're sucking in our kids. Now they're sucking in our culture. Now they're mixing with our crowds. Put a stop to these guys. Of course not. They pay for protection. When you have a lot of money, you can pay the right people at the right time. Why would the children of the small privileged group in Tijuana, like yourself, get involved with the Arellanos, who are killers? The definition for 'killers' that's used in the media is different than the reality of killers, of killing. There are contracts made. And when people get killed, it's because those people ripped off a load or did something they weren't supposed to in the verbal contract, and were given umpteen chances to fix that problem. Or there's a snitch. That's just a rule: you snitch, you die. So when you say 'killer,' it's not like people are out there, like the gangs were for a while there, doing these drive-by shootings and killing all these innocent people. If innocent people are killed, it's not intentional. It does happen at times, and I'm not defending anybody, but I don't like the way sometimes they say, 'Ah, these guys just kill everybody. But why would you get involved with these people? There are several reasons. One is Hollywood--the fame. It's not the juniors' fault that they made all these gangster movies and they portrayed everybody so romantically, like the Godfather--Al Pacino, the Corleones, Scarface. They make all these romantic movies. Everybody loves these characters. So they get to junior. And junior is a year old, year old or a year old--still young, dumb, barely starting off on his own. But they like the Porsches, that's the problem. And now all of a sudden, since the mixture of classes. Before, you would see somebody with a brand new Porsche, and think, 'Ah, drug dealer. You couldn't say, 'Wow, look at so-and-so with the Porsche. Probably his dad bought it for him, or their business is going good. Maybe he was. But he's above suspicion because his dad owns a big company. You're already privileged. You're driving a decent car. Your tuition is being paid. You're going to a nice school. But you're not driving the Porsche, the Lamborghini, the Ferrari, the Mercedes, the new Beamer that just came out. And you want that. And guess what? A couple of your friends that you grew up with have that, and they're dealing with these guys. You know somebody that can help them out, so you talk to them. And before you know it, you're involved with it. Now you're involved. Now you're in. In ninety-five percent of the cases, the parents don't know. The parents believe the kid's business is going well. He's got a business, he just became a dentist and his practice is going well. Or he has a stereo shop and the stereo shop is going real well and he got a great deal on this car and that's why he's got a new Mercedes. It's a fallacy that you can't get out. You can get out. Nobody cares. The fewer people, the better; it's less competition. It's not like that Cosa Nostra thing, 'Oh, you're in. Now you can't get out. You can get out any time you want. As long as you've finished your contracts, you don't owe anybody, and you're okay. Why aren't the Arellanos taken out or replaced? Why the Arellanos haven't got caught, I don't know. Unless you really have it well planned and well devised and you actually trust the government to pay you, you're not going to get involved in trying to take them out. And they don't travel by themselves. For example, when the Arellanos go have lunch at Puerto Escondido in Rosarito, it's closed down, either by the feds or just by all the Arellanos' people. They might come in a helicopter, have lunch, and they're gone. They're not that accessible. It's not like, 'Oh, they're down the street on a certain block, on Fifteenth Street, in that white mansion. But a lot of times they have somebody along the chain of authority that intercepts the message that they're going to hit a certain house or they've been seen. And they'll get the message before it happens. So the house gets hit, and they're in another one of their houses. What about corruption on the US side? If you get a corrupt US Customs agent, when I was in the business, they were charging, I believe it was 30 grand a carload. And they don't care what it is in the car. It could be a body; it could be drugs; it could be a hundred kilos; half a kilo, a ton. Obviously, usually you're paying up front 30 grand. And usually you're packing that car to the hilt, getting it across. And he'll fly you. He'll let it go by. There is definitely corruption in the Customs agents. You also got into money laundering as part of your activities. What does that mean? Money laundering is taking cash money--Benji, Benjamin Franklins, fives, twenties, tens, hundreds--and making them into paper. That's all money laundering is. It's taking cash money and then reducing it to paper money. Once it's reduced to paper money, anybody will accept it. Not everybody--in fact, very few people nowadays--will accept cash money, especially in large amounts. It's a whole art form to convert it from cash money to paper money. And paper money could be off of wire transfers, when I say paper money, because it'll be paper at some point in time in somebody's account or in somebody's ledger. Everybody wants the money. It's a very high commodity. And it's not just the dollar figure amount. It's all the work that went into taking loads of drugs from a certain origin in Mexico or Colombia all the way into the United States, stashing it, selling it, breaking it down. Ah, just so many things go into it that, by the time you actually have cash, there's been a lot of work. In fact, probably one quarter to half of that money has been spent. When a load of money goes down, it's a lot of headaches for a lot of people, because a lot of people are owed money. A lot of people fronted their services How did you do it? Let me give you a realistic scenario. That's about as much as I ever got into it. Crossing the border going south, as soon as I get into Mexico, I'm a money launderer. I haven't yet converted the money, but I took the money out of the country illegally. You just make sure there's nobody checking the border. You have your guys out there looking to see if somebody's going to go through or not. And just dial you on your beeper and put all sixes, the sign of the devil: don't cross right now. So you know if they put seven in, that's the good luck number: let your money go through. There's nobody checking. The Mexican guys? Don't worry about them. We'll take care of them. They know us. That's taken care of. The business works on the basis of contracts? Everything is a contract. Just like a commodities contract, except it's verbal, but it's signed by your blood, basically. If you breach a contract, you'd better have a good reason, and you'd better fly down to Colombia--or Mexico, if you're dealing with a Mexican cartel--and show your face and explain the situation. For example on the money laundering side, you say, 'I can take the cash and I can have the cashier's checks in five days at seven percent. Three days at five percent 'No. Six days at 6. So by this time when you're doing this, you're in contact with the bank at the same time. Sometimes it's, 'Don't come on the first or on the fifteenth because we can't give you any cashiers,'--the girls who count the money. They don't trust the machines, or the machines have problems because the money's wet, or the money has drugs on it. There are all kinds of problems with the money-counting machines. Half the money can't be counted in the money-counting machine, because something's wrong with that bill. So the girls count it. You have to sit there, and you literally don't move your eyes for four or five hours at a time while these girls are counting. If you even just cough, those girls are so good, that two, three hundred dollars are on the floor. You didn't even see them do it. So in four, five, six hours, two days, three days straight of counting money, these girls'll take you for ten grand. They are good. So you count the money. And what happens is sometimes you can only move so much out in that three-day span. Meanwhile, these Colombians are forcing more money and more money and more money on you, 'Move this money. Move this money. So now you're using their vaults. It got to the point where I had a special number, that when I would drive up to the bank I had the actual code, so the bank's door would open and I could drive in like the Brinks trucks would do. And they'd send their guard. And this is in Tijuana? So you get this backlog of money in the vaults. The Colombians would get that counting all mixed up, because you're not just dealing with your loads. Now you're out laundering money for a lot of different Colombians or a lot of different loads. So we're trying to keep the accounting. And I go, 'You want me to launder the money? I'll launder the money. I'll send a wire transfer or cashier's checks. I can't keep track of that stuff. I'm taking the money and I'm making sure it's going out. This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted in

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Fentanyl has been infiltrating the illicit drug supply for roughly a decade, since traffickers seized on the synthetic drug as a cheaper alternative to traditional opiates — and one with a higher profit margin. The U. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has described fentanyl as up to 50 times stronger than heroin. A dose as small as 2 milligrams can be fatal. Light blue pills. Fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills. Then, it began appearing in counterfeit pills made to look like the real thing. Getting one of those pills still required a willingness to engage in illicit street deals. But to many users, the faux pharmaceuticals seemed safer than drugs that required shooting or snorting. Accordingly, street pills found a much larger market than powders. If those pills can now be purchased in legitimate pharmacies, that market becomes larger still. Were you or someone you know harmed by pills in Mexico? We want to hear from readers about their experience. Let us know by filling out this brief form. Stroll past the picturesque stores and yacht-lined docks of Cabo San Lucas. A harbor with yachts and buildings on hills in the background. Cabo San Lucas. Some have sandwich board signs on the sidewalk advertising pills. In Cabo San Lucas, one shop near a large dockside shopping mall featured a few racks of toys inches away from stacked boxes of medication. Illustration of three pills. They asked how strong the pills were. None of the pharmacists inquired further. Invariably, the tablets were kept in some hidden spot. Though bottles of less tightly controlled medications like Xanax or Viagra or Ultram were often on display in glass cases, more powerful and more closely regulated substances like oxycodone — whether real or fake — were secreted away. Pharmacies such as these accept payment in most any format — credit card, pesos or dollars. At one store in Tijuana, all the drugs turned out to be legitimate — or at least they did not contain fentanyl. A pill on a piece of paper. Testing on an Adderall pill came back positive for meth in Cabo San Lucas. Among the three cities, several stores declined to sell the pills individually, and two refused to sell them without a prescription. Though roughly a third of the 40 pharmacies targeted in the study would not sell high-powered prescription drugs over the counter, the majority did. With their more precise equipment, the researchers were able to get more granular results — and to determine that three of the oxycodone samples were positive for heroin. They, like The Times, also found that all of the counterfeit pills came from stores in areas frequented by tourists, in locations that often featured English-language medication advertisements. A silhouetted person walks by a pharmacy. A pharmacy in Cabo San Lucas. State Department, meanwhile, noted two drug-related deaths of Americans in Mexico that year. Cabo San Lucas is a major draw for American tourists. But cartels knew they could make more money by producing it themselves. In the years that followed, the amount of fentanyl seized by U. Customs and Border Protection more than tripled, from 4, pounds in to 14, pounds last year. But pharmacy owners are most likely not buying directly from the criminal organizations. When reporters visited last month, at least a few drugstore workers seemed aware their over-the-counter offerings were unusually potent. He was differentiating between two pills he presented when asked for oxycodone: the one he pointed out, which later tested positive for fentanyl, and one that came up negative. Given the shortcomings in Mexican death data, spotting those deaths could be difficult — which means cartels will have little reason to curb their pill trade. Over the course of a year, we recently lost , sons, daughters, moms, and dads to drug overdoses. Millions are suffering from mental illness, exacerbated by the pandemic. Together, we must take action to save lives. For more resources click here. February 02, Some pharmacies in Mexico passing off fentanyl, meth as legitimate pharmaceuticals. Are you, or someone you know, struggling with a mental health or substance use disorder? You are not alone.

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