- Officials say synthetic opioids easier to produce and smuggle
- Drug labs have doubled from 91 last year to 175 in 2020
Seizures of the synthetic opioid fentanyl by Mexican security forces have increased by at least 486% in 2020, the country’s defence secretary has announced.
Mexico’s military and police forces seized an estimated 1.3 tons of the synthetic opioid this year, compared to 222 kilograms in 2019.
