U.S. Companies, Working in Mexico, are Responsible for Meth, Heroin

   You will find this hard to believe. It is an American company, working in Mexico, that produces the drug essential to making heroin and methamphetamine. That is shocking -- that it is an American company that makes the drug essential to heroin and meth. Without this ingredient, there would be no heroin and there would be no meth. 

  Most heroin comes from Asia and Latin America, where opium poppies are grown. Factories extract morphine from the poppies seeds. 

  The American companies involved -- Avantar Inc., Celanese Corporation, and Eastman Chemical -- do not produce the drugs in the U.S, but in Mexico, where inforcement of drug laws are lax.  Avantor Inc. is, at smallest, a $12.3 billion company traded on the New York Stock Exchange. 

  If you wonder where the three companies are located, Avantar is in Radnor, Pennsylvania ; Eastman Chemical in Kingsport, Tennessee. Avantor is headquartered about 15 miles from Philadelphia, in a community said to have the largest open-air market on the East Coast, That community, as of 2017, was suffering from the worst opiod crisis in America.