Key Source Of Killer Heroin Discovered; Additional Killer Heroin To Be Out On Street Within Days

The Inquirer’s Troy Graham reported today about a major drug bust in Pennsauken that happened over the summer.

The story doesn’t say why this wasn’t announced until now, but 30-year-old Jaime Castellar was arrested in October and is in federal custody. He’s accused of running a heroin mill that laced the drug with fentanyl, a legal painkiller 80 times more powerful than morphine. The laced heroin — which makes the drug more powerful but can easily cause overdoses if it’s not made correctly — has caused deaths up and down the East Coast throughout the summer and as recently as Thanksgiving (with not much media coverage, to boot).

Castellar’s fentanyl came from Mexico, of course, since the drug is regulated in the U.S. and only smart guys in white coats have access to it. Here’s why it caused so many deaths.

The problem, McAleer said, is that people working in basement heroin mills aren’t exactly scientific about their methods, and they can easily put too much fentanyl in a bag. “They don’t have any technical measurement equipment,” he said. “A typical mill, they’re sitting around, using tiny spoons.”

Gee. I can’t possibly think of a way to end this without doing that really annoying argument style where you just state your opponent’s position and act all high and mighty about it. So I’ll just do this: Stop the drug war.

Key source of lethal heroin discovered, officials report