Okay guys I'm just gonna speak from personal experience here, I've spent a lot of time involved as a user in the heroin game, and I'm not ignorant as most. The dope that is cut with fentanyl analogs is the shit guys want. Most addicts just think it's super strong heroin because they're generally not the most intelligent people. But yeah, the cut fentanyl analog dope is by far the strongest and doesn't require nearly the same amount for the desired effect. In fact you can't even get that kind of effect from regular heroin. Deals DO sell fent dope as H because generally they're ignorant too. This shit changes so many hands, nobody really knows what they have.
First: congrats on getting clean, which im assuming you are (maybe im wrong).
I used to be a fentanyl addict. specificly fentanyl and derivatives, not heroin cut with fent. I can confirm that of all the opiates out there these 4-anilidopiperidines hit harder and faster than any other opiate.
When someones been using heroin and then tries fentanyl, it will get them off in a way heroin hasnt been able to since the early days of their addiction. Once they feel that, heroin will feel even less satisfying foreever after. Addiction is a progressive situation where the persons constantly pushing the limit.
In mexico the cartels are now having to add fentanyl into their down, because its become the gold standard expectation. Supposedly they call it El Diablito or some spanish equivalent for the little devil. There was a pretty well known case where Chinese customs officials found over 70 KG of fentanyl in a shipping container about to leave China for Mexico. Presumably to end up in the hands of the cartels. It would also seem that the Sinaloa Cartel is the primary group cutting fent into their dope, of course the sinaloans run much of mexicos heroin production so it shouldnt be too shocking.
Short history lesson for you guys interested. In 1983-1984 a guy named George Marquardt started manufacturing fntanyl derivatives, particularly alpha-methyl-fentanyl, 3-methylfentanyl, and even by the end of his career he ventured into thiofentanyl derivatives too. Even though he himself lived in Kansas (iirc), his fentanyl derivatives were exclusively sold in the northeastern USA. Over a span of 4-5 years his derivatives killed several hundred people and it took the DEA 2 years to figure out what the derivatives structures even were. He was eventually arrested, sentenced, and was finally released in 2014 from prison.
In the 90's a fentanyl lab, making standard fentanyl (not derivatives) was busted in California. The owner of that lab was sentenced. In prison he made contacts with mexican cartel members. He must have educated them about the shit, because he was released in the early 2000s and months after his release a massive fentanyl outbreak occured in Chicago. Google about the mickey cobras gang and the massive 300+ police officers descnding on housing projects to shut it all down. That fentanyl was traced to a laboratory in Mexico in 2006. Guess who they arrested operating that laboratory? The same guy theyd just released from prison in California for making fentanyl there. They also arrested several cartel chemists at th lab who this guy was in the process of teaching the synthesis to.
This was a pivotal moment in 2006, as it marked the awakening among the mexicans that fentanyl existed, and its normous profit potential that it had. It also meant there was potentially dozens of other cartel chemists that this guy had already finished training, who were never caught, and now knew how to make fentanyl.
The fentanyl scene went dead again, at least in the eyes of the public, until around 2013-2014, when fentanyl finally went mainstream thanks to the Chinese and Chinese law not recognizing fentanyl derivatives as controlled substances and therefore legal for any factory to make.
I can make this guarantee, you will forever see fentanyl on thbkack market now, because the knowledge of it has become mainstream and the synthesis is not all that challenging. Even if the chinese stop 100%, self taught chemists will fill the void.