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Fentanyl As A Dark Web Profit Center, From Chinese Labs To U.S. Streets
![Bags of heroin, some laced with fentanyl, picked up in a 2016 New York City drug bust. "Basically, [fentanyl] is so cheap to produce and it's so powerful, that drug dealers began realizing it was a way to increase their profits," <em>Fentanyl, Inc. </em>author Ben Westhoff says. But miscalculations of the amount used can be deadly. (Getty Images)](https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2019/09/03/gettyimages-609942630_wide-de21fffa54a14af977d566ce036d7c7c770a840f.jpg?s=1000)
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