The English language graduate attended university for the first time in her family. Her aim was to become a teacher and she was passionate about foreign languages. Before this, she had never heard of synthetic opioids.
Sammy worked for a chemicals company in the Chinese city of Shijiazhuang after graduating, selling what she believed to be chemicals to customers all over the world. Speaking to clients online, she would practice her English every day and get paid a commission for each transaction. Her aspirations to become a teacher soon vanished.
Perhaps others are exactly like me. We don’t know what we are selling at first, but by the time we do, we’ve fallen in love with the work,” the woman remarked. She continues, “This work can bring in money.”
An unexpected drug dealer is Sammy [not her real name]. She is one of the hundreds of internet sales agents that illegal Chinese pharmaceutical and chemical enterprises, creating and transporting unlawful laboratory-made pharmaceuticals, use, according to estimates from international law enforcement organizations.
