Quote Originally Posted by rickschoppers View Post
You may be right ENT and I can not say you are wrong since I do not know for sure.

In all my years in the pharmacy business, I never asked a drug rep where they obtained their raw material for opioid type drugs. I do know that there were several occasions that we could not obtain morphine, meperidine and other opiods due to the lack of raw materials. In fact, if you go on the FDA drug shortage list right now, you will see many drug shortages due to lack of raw materials.
We knew our sources at Sqibb/OLin, it was all cash up on the nail each month.
Which is why I ask about the Afghan supply.

It's reputedly all smuggled out, and again, reputedly makes its way to the underground ME and USAEuro drug trade, again, reputedly via US personnel et al in Afghanistan.

I have no way of corroberating these anecdotal claims, but there's an awful great tonnage of O unaccounted for somewhere betwixt Big Pharma and Afghanistan published figures.

There aren't enough heroin addicts around to account for it.

It's gone somewhere else, and historically, it all went to the big drug houses.

There's no reason to think that the supply line terminated elsewhere.