Chihuahua.- Chihuahua is one of the nine entities in the country in which the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) reports having registered seizures of fentanyl between January and June 21, 2024.
According to a report submitted by this agency through the National Transparency Platform, during that period, 100 grams were seized in the state, an amount that adds to another 9.3 kilograms and more than 69 thousand pieces of the opioid counted by the Federal Public Ministry in Chihuahua from 2019 to 2023.
In 2024, statistics show, the main discoveries have been made in Baja California, from where the 31 kilogram and 4,718 pieces were recorded, and Sinaloa, with 18 kilos and 53,198 doses.
Another entity with one of the largest volumes listed this year is Sonora, where five kilos and 53,198 pieces were found.
These and other states, separately, also appear in the most recent “Report on the situation of mental health and substance use in Mexico,” released in June by the Ministry of Health of the federal government, with the estimate that this type of seizure generates greater losses for organized crime.
“The states where the main seizures have been made include the northern and central regions of Mexico: Baja California, Baja California Sur, Mexico City, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Colima, Durango, Jalisco, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Queretaro, Sinaloa and Sonora,” the analysis says.
With annual figures updated until 2023, the report adds that, with 2,086 kilograms, the highest quantities had been detected in 2022.
The biggest jump at the national level, however, according to the data from the Mental Health Report, occurred between 2019 and 2020, when the figure rose from 491 kilos to 1,242.
“Considering that small quantities of fentanyl produce large quantities of doses, and that its sale on the market is more profitable than that of other drugs, it is estimated that (…) it very likely represents the first places in economic losses for organized crime,” indicates the text of the Ministry of Health.
Although without figures, the report also identifies Chihuahua as one of the four states in which “the majority of cases of consumption have been observed in 2023,” along with Baja California, Sonora and Sinaloa.
“Currently, opioid consumption in Mexico is not high compared to other countries (…); however, illicitly produced fentanyls stand out, the consumption of which has proliferated to a greater extent in certain localities in the north of the country,” he says.
“In the context of treatment, since 2018 there has been an increase in the demand for care for the consumption of these psychoactive substances, with 10 cases in 2018, 25 in 2019, 72 in 2020, 184 in 2021, 333 in 2022 and 518 in 2023. Most cases of consumption in 2023 were reported in the states of Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa and Chihuahua,” he added.
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