Trump became strict on China over Fantalin
US President Donald Trump has said that he wants to make an agreement with China in which people who make Phantalin and send them to the US should be given direct death sentence. He claims that Chinese companies deliberately split such chemicals from which it becomes a deadly dung. Trump has said that the 20 percent tariff he imposed on China is actually a Pantalin Penalty.
This is not the first time that the US has accused China of giving air to drug crisis. But this time the matter and B are serious. Trump says that if China does not improve, then America alone will take big action against this drug. Trump claims that during his tenure, there was going to be a deal with China, but it could not be possible due to election theft. Now they are talking about action on Fantanil on a war footing when they come to power again. But what is fantanil? Why is it so dangerous? How does these small parcels reach America from China and take thousands of lives every year?
Fantanil: Dosa as Pencil’s tip, and death fixed
Fentanil is a synthetic opioid (drug), which was approved as a medical painkiller in the 1960s. Doctors use its limited dose during the operation. But the mess starts from where this drug leaves the medical system and reaches the Iingle market. This medicine is so poisonous that if its quantity is also two milligrams-but the person can die as much as the tip of a pencil. This is the reason that the figure of deaths in America is touching new height every year. In 2022 and 2023, more than 1 lakh people died of dungs in which Phantalin was mixed.
This is not just intoxication, but an epidemic for America
According to CDC (Center for Disease Control), in the US in 2022, 74,000 people died only from synthetic options such as Fantanil. This figure is more than the Americans killed in the three wars of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 2012, this drug has become the cause of the biggest death in the American younger generation. One-third of the deaths of 25 to 34 years of people came from Fentanil. And the most scary thing is that many times people accidentally fall prey to it. They feel that they are taking drugs like Zenax, Oxicodone, but it contains fantanil.
Thousands go from Phantalin in America
How is Fantanil and where does it come from?
Fantanil is made by mixing chemicals in the lab. That is, it is prepared in a synthetic way, not from plants. China is the biggest supplier of chemicals required for this. Although China put Phantalin in the list of controlled drugs in 2019, but many chemicals related to it are still unconstated. Many times these chemicals are also used in other legitimate works, so the companies easily escape. According to American investigation reports, some Chinese companies sell such chemicals which are used to make fantanils. After this, these chemicals are sent to Mexico, where drugs are prepared in the underground lab. From there, this drug reaches America through smuggling.
How does this poison enter America?
Now the story of smart smuggling comes here. These drugs are sent from China directly to America or through Mexico in small parcels. Its way is Master Carton Shipping. This means that small boxes are packed in a large box. This is a common way in e-commerce and international shipping, but smugglers have started using it well.
A report by Reuters says that in addition, there is a rule in the US De Minimis Rule, under which if a parcel is less than $ 800, it is neither taxed, neither duty nor hard investigation. Smugglers take advantage of this and send a parcel filled with poison to America.
What has been done to solve the problem?
Government efforts to control drugs in America have often failed. For the first time in 1890, morphine and opium were taxed, but it had the opposite effect. Between 1890 and 1902, the use of cocaine increased by 700%. Cocaine was so popular that it was also added to drinks like Coca-Cola.
After this, opium smoking was banned in 1909, in 1937, the Meriesa Tax Act came and the Controled Substance Act came into force in 1970. In 1971, President Richard Nixon announced War on Drugs, and in 1986 the US Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act at a cost of $ 1.7 billion. Despite these strict laws, the supply and use of drugs did not affect much, but it caused heavy losses to many communities, especially apartheid people.
