The Lethal Business of Synthetic Drugs Like Fentanyl

A new book shows that the shift to opioids manufactured internationally in labs has created a deadly drugs crisis

Eric Allen Been
OneZero
Published in
8 min readSep 23, 2019

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InIn 2014, two 18-year-old roommates in Grand Forks, North Dakota, named Bailey Henke and Kain Schwandt, were unraveling from opioid addictions. Over Christmas vacation, they took a road…

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Eric Allen Been
OneZero

A writer. Not based in Brooklyn. Recent bylines with Vox, Vanity Fair, Harvard Magazine, MIT’s Undark, VICE and Playboy.