Dutch Importers Fuel Designer Drug Boom

Dutch companies are importing a staggering amount of designer drugs from India, worth nearly two billion euros between 2019 and 2025, turning a deadly profit by smuggling stimulants, ketamine-like substances, and the “zombie drug” flakka. Over 700 orders from 30 importers brought in 153,000 kilograms of finished drugs and cutting agents, resold across borders. Buyers paid just 46 million euros but pocketed nearly 2 billion — a profit so huge it’s driving traffickers to encrypted apps and foreign servers. These “research chemicals” skirt legal bans by tweaking banned substances’ formulas, exploiting loopholes to flood the market. The National Poison Information Center warns of deadly consequences: addiction, heart attacks, psychosis, comas, brain damage, seizures — and death — all fueled by greed and a dangerously legal gray area. Support the show:Get a discount at https://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/e94466aafe8211fd