Afghanistan didn’t have poppy production till it was allowed by the Bush administration. Their primary exports were food stuffs but it was easy to spoil the Iranians and Russians with cheap drugs that ruin society. This was patterned after the british opium wars but done at a funky scale. Now our chickens have come to roost now that pill based pain medication has gotten so hard… life finds a way.
America's biggest export is blowback. Our search tree doesn't go that deep.
So to answer the title question: "Yes, but you should feel guilty anyway."
Didn’t know the sackler family was Chinese.
Great reference there…
They have never forgotten opium wars
The primary flows of fent into the USA are from Mexico and China [1]. India is emerging as a source for finished fentanyl
powder and fentanyl precursor chemicals.