Unfortunately, it is super cheap to make, easy to distribute, and unfortunately, super deadly and impossible to taper. Because of fentanyl’s extremely short half-life you need to re-up within hours or suffer the worst withdrawals within a few hour after your last shot. Other opioids can’t touch fentanyl tolerance because of it’s crazy affinity to the receptors, and the amount of even heroin just to stave off withdrawals is obscene and frankly wasteful. I also kicked heroin about 8 years ago right before fentanyl started showing up in everyone’s bags. I got that monkey off my back, and I’m grateful I did, or I mosdef would be dead a while ago.
I carry Narcan nasal spray in my pocket, because people in my neighborhood keep ODing in the city park adjacent to my house. Fentanyl isn’t even euphoric, it’s just super addictive and it will kill you without that feeling ‘good’. Anyone that says they love the buzz from fentanyl is lying, or they have never tried real heroin. Fuck fentanyl, even in a hospital setting with a team of people, shit can and does go wrong. At least there, you have a chance to reverse it. On the streets your fucked.