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Heroin’s Hidden Ingredient Is a Chemical Made by U.S. Companies
U.S. company Avantor has cultivated a remarkable line of business across Mexico: selling acetic anhydride used to make heroin.
03 Sep 2020, 10:19 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Making their way down a narrow country road in the Mexican state of Sinaloa one morning in May 2019, members of a counter-narcotics squad were struck by a strong chemical smell. They pulled over, and a small reconnaissance team climbed out of their vehicles, then stalked down a trail. Behind a thicket of trees, tucked in a clearing, they found an open-air drug factory—not a huge surprise in Sinaloa, the ca...
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