 [Breitbart] Mark Lamb, sheriff of Pinal County, AZ, noted on Wednesday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast with host Alex Marlow that China supplies transnational criminal cartels based in Mexico with most essential ingredients required to produce fentanyl.
"Centuries ago, there were the Opium Wars that literally almost brought a dynasty to its knees, and I think that China is now exacting that same fate on the West [and] on America," Lamb stated. "They’re bringing in the majority of the precursors that it takes to create the fentanyl. They give it to the cartels in Mexico, and then Mexico is producing the product that they’re transporting into Arizona and into America."
Breitbart News reported on the rising numbers of overdose deaths — many related to fentanyl — over recent years. The number of overdose deaths in America rose nearly 15 percent in the year following the Biden administration’s installation, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Drug overdose deaths have been increasing nearly every year since 1999, according to data from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The federal bureaucracy estimated the number of overdose deaths to be 91,799 in 2020. The bureaucracy’s estimated number of domestic overdose deaths for the twelve-month period ending in January 2021 is 95,452. The following twelve-month period ending in January 2022 reached 108,769. 
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