All this was part of how fentanyl disrupted the traditional drug world, just as Amazon and Uber upended retail and taxis. Kingpin quantities of drugs were being made or available to be sold by people with no control of geography, no labor force. Procuring large quantities of illegal drugs once required underworld connections, and dealing with scary people. Fentanyl allowed a dealer to go around all that. Thus, fentanyl reached every corner of America and pushed the overdose-death toll far beyond anything we’ve seen as a country. This wasn’t because users demanded it. Instead, fentanyl was a
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