Fentanyl: Neue Drogenkartelle und die tödliche Welle der Opioidkrise

by Ben Westhoff

Spannend wie ein Die »Panama-Papers« des globalen Drogenmarkts. Mit dem heutigen Wissen lassen sich beinahe unbegrenzt psychoaktive Substanzen entwickeln, darunter auch das Schmerzmittel Fentanyl. Es ist etwa 100 Mal stärker als Morphin und führt jedes Jahr zu Tausenden Drogentodesfällen, vor allem in den USA, aber zunehmend auch in Europa. Ben Westhoff hat vier Jahre zum globalen Netzwerk der Produzenten und Profiteure der neuen Drogen recherchiert und erzählt darüber in einem packenden Bericht – ebenso wie über die meist erfolglosen Versuche, sich den Kartellen entgegenzustemmen. Westhoff ist ü Strafen und Repression helfen nicht, wichtig sind vielmehr Aufklärung, Unterstützung und Angebote, um Schäden an Leib und Leben zu minimieren.

332 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 12, 2021

About the author

Ben Westhoff's new book Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search For the Truth (May 24, 2022, Hachette Books) is a true crime memoir detailing his investigation into the unsolved killing of Jorell Cleveland, Westhoff's mentee in the Big Brothers Big Sisters program for 11 years. His previous book Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic (Grove Atlantic) is the highly-acclaimed, bombshell first book about fentanyl, which is causing the worst drug crisis in American history. It has received glowing reviews, was included on many year-end best lists, and Westhoff was featured on NPR's Fresh Air and Joe Rogan's podcast. He now speaks around the country about the fentanyl crisis, and has advised top government officials on the problem, including from the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and the U.S. State Department.

Westhoff's previous book Original Gangstas: Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap is one of the best-selling hip-hop books of all time and has been translated into multiple languages, receiving top reviews from Rolling Stone, People, Kirkus, and others. S. Leigh Savidge, Academy Award nominee and co-writer of Straight Outta Compton said it "may be the best book ever written about the hip hop world."

Westhoff is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, the Library of Congress, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Rolling Stone, Vice, and others. His 2011 book on southern hip-hop, Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop was a Library Journal best seller.

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