A federal report said Mexico's two largest cartels are operating in every U.S. state, and are driving the nation's deadly overdose epidemic from fentanyl and other synthetic drugs.
A man prepares to smoke fentanyl on a park bench in downtown Portland, Ore., Thursday, May 18, 2023. Oregon is poised to step back from its first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law. A measure lawmakers sent to the governor, Friday, March 1, …’s two largest cartels are operating in every U.S.
Those cities serve as main hubs for the cartels, who establish smaller branches throughout the country to distribute methamphetamine andcaused almost 70% of all drug deaths in 2022, which comes out to over 74,000 people dying from overdoses. Provisional data cited by theDirect Anne Milgram wrote in the report. “This shift has resulted in the most dangerous and deadly drug crisis the United States has ever faced.
Once they are stateside, cartel affiliates enlist local gangs to help them get drugs on the street and fuel the multi-billion dollar enterprise for both Mexican crime groups. The cartels “dictate the flow of nearly all illicit drugs into the United States, and their dominance over the synthetic drug trade in particular is evident in the relentless stream of illicit
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