“There’s never been a drug like fentanyl before. For street drugs, this absolutely destroys anything else in terms of lethality and danger.” Bloomberg: This Killer Opioid Could Become a Weapon of Mass Destruction. “It would take only 118 pounds of fentanyl to kill 25 million people.”

+ CNN: Fentanyl is the deadliest drug in America.

+ “Yan is the first Chinese national the U.S. has ever added to its ‘consolidated priority organization target’ list of individuals thought to command the world’s most prolific drug-trafficking and money-laundering networks … But if Yan doesn’t resemble a stereotypical drug lord, neither is fentanyl your average drug.” Bloomberg: Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins.