Fentanyl

Exciting as a thriller: The Panama Papers of the global drug market. With today's knowledge, nearly unlimited psychoactive substances can be developed, including the painkiller fentanyl. It is about 100 times stronger than morphine and leads to thousands of drug-related deaths each year, especially in the USA, but increasingly also in Europe. Ben Westhoff spent four years researching the global network of producers and beneficiaries of new drugs and shares his findings in a gripping report—along with the mostly unsuccessful attempts to resist the cartels. Westhoff is convinced that punishment and repression do not help; rather, education, support, and services to minimize harm to body and life are essential.