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Chemists, Chinese Factories, and ‘Dark Web’ Dealers Spread Fentanyl to US (thenation.com)
4 points by SQL2219 on Dec 31, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



...These experimental compounds—as well as the steps taken to produce them—were written up in small, peer-reviewed science journals and more or less forgotten, until the underworld began to repurpose these articles as recipes for recreational drugs. David Nichols, the utopian chemist who once dreamed of a drug that would end all war, now finds himself faced with the grief of parents like Eric Brown, whose son Montana overdosed on 251-NBOMe, which was brought into the mainstream through his research.




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