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- Mexico is facing a important shortage of fentanyl for aesculapian use, a study released by nan country's authorities said Friday.
- While nary logic for nan shortage was given, nan National Commission connected Mental Health and Addictions branded it a worldwide problem.
- Despite Mexico's deficiency of fentanyl authorized for usage arsenic an anesthetic, astir 2 tons of nan supplier are seized annually from cartels trading it illegally.
A study released by nan Mexican authorities Friday says nan state is facing a dire shortage of fentanyl for aesculapian use, moreover arsenic Mexican cartels pump retired tons of nan illicit narcotic.
The paradox was reported successful a study by Mexico’s National Commission connected Mental Health and Addictions. The study did not springiness a logic for nan shortage of nan synthetic opioid, which is needed for anesthesia successful hospitals, but claimed it was a world-wide problem.
The committee said fentanyl had to beryllium imported, and that imports fell by much than 50% betwixt 2022 and 2023.
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Nonetheless, Mexican cartels look to beryllium having nary problem importing tons of precursor chemicals and making their ain fentanyl, which they smuggle into nan United States. The study says Mexican seizures of illicit fentanyl roseate 1.24 tons successful 2020 to 1.85 tons successful 2023.
Some of that is now spilling backmost crossed nan border, pinch an summation successful illicit fentanyl addiction reported successful immoderate Mexican separator regions — a problem Mexico paradoxically blamed connected nan United States.
Bundles of bluish pills containing fentanyl intercepted astatine nan border. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection )
"Despite nan limitations of readiness successful pharmaceutical fentanyl successful our country, nan excessive usage of opiates successful caller decades successful nan United States has had important repercussions connected depletion and proviso successful Mexico," nan study states.
The study said that requests for addiction curen in Mexico accrued from 72 cases successful 2020, to 430 cases successful 2023. That sounds for illustration a mini number compared to nan estimated 70,000 yearly overdose deaths successful nan United States successful caller years related to synthetic opioids. But successful fact, nan Mexican authorities does very small to connection addiction treatment, truthful nan numbers astir apt don't bespeak nan existent scope of nan problem.
The shortage of aesculapian anesthetic narcotics has caused immoderate existent problems successful Mexico.
Local problems pinch nan readiness of morphine and fentanyl person led anesthesiologists to get their ain supplies, transportation nan vials astir pinch them, and administer aggregate doses from a azygous vial to conserve their supply.
In 2022, anesthetics contaminated by those practices caused a meningitis outbreak successful nan bluish authorities of Durango that killed astir 3 twelve people, galore of whom were pregnant women fixed epidurals. Several Americans died because of a akin outbreak aft having room astatine clinics successful nan Mexican separator metropolis of Matamoros successful 2023.
The consequence by nan management of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to those copy problems — not capable ineligible fentanyl, and excessively overmuch of nan illicit worldly — has been contradictory.
In 2023, López Obrador concisely projected banning fentanyl moreover for aesculapian use, but has not mentioned that thought lately aft it drew a activity of disapproval from doctors.
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Meanwhile, nan president has steadfastly denied that Mexican cartels nutrient nan drug, contempt overwhelming grounds that they import precursor chemicals from Asia and transportation retired nan chemic processes to make fentanyl. López Obrador claims they only property nan supplier into pill form.
