How are drugs made cheaper by ‘cutting’ with something that can be even more powerful than the original drug?
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Fentanyl and some other chemicals are much easier to transport than some other drugs, which is the real danger to dealers, and therefore a significant reason why the price is so high. If you have to drive across the country with a trunk packed to the brim with heroin, then you probably want a premium for taking that kind of risk. That’s just a simplified example, but you get my meaning. But if you can drive across the country with something ~50 times smaller, but just as powerful as that trunk full of heroin, then your chances of getting caught go down significantly, and so does the price.
Even if you’re shipping the same weights/volumes, fentanyl will necessarily be cheaper on the market because of supply and demand. Addicts might have higher upper limits to the amount of drug they can stomach, but not ~50x more.
Fentanyl is also synthetic, so that lowers the price as well. Not all synthetics are necessarily cheaper than possible non-synthetic counterparts, but fentanyl is. When you can remove the need to have acres of farmland filled with poppies that have to be farmed and refined over a significant amount of time, you can see why synthetic production would be cheaper. This is especially true when this is done in countries with significantly lower standards of living than most of ours, but where they are backed by a state apparatus, like in North Korea, or even China.
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