translated from Spanish: Cartel Sinaloa and CJNG, the greatest threats to EU: DEA

administrator for the United States Drug Control (DEA for its acronym in English) announced that the Mexican cartels of Sinaloa and Jalisco new generation are the biggest criminal threat d drugs for their country.
In its national threat assessment of drugs of 2018 (presenting EU threats by national and international drug trafficking), the DEA details than these two posters “are the main drugs for domestic gangs responsible for wholesale sources of” the distribution at street level”.
The study reveals that controlled prescription drugs continue to be responsible for the largest number of any kind of illicit drug overdose deaths since 2001.
This is due in part to that “traffickers now disguised as other opioids as controlled prescription drugs to gain access to this market”.
In the meantime, highlights that you between 2013 and 2016 doubled the deaths by poisoning by heroin-related drug.
“Of all opioids, abuse of illicit fentanyl and other synthetic opioids has caused the largest number of deaths in the us. Fentanyl is becoming more available in the form of counterfeit prescription pills marketed for illicit street sales, and also sold by dealers on their own, without the presence of other drugs.”   
They added that a time to date has increased adulteration of heroin with fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.
In this sense include the heroin available in the United States comes primarily from Mexico, “where opium poppy cultivation and heroin production have increased significantly in recent years”, especially at the hands of cartels of Sinaloa and Jalisco New generation.
As for the marketing and distribution of the drug in the U.S., street and prison gangs continue dominating the market, being drug trafficking the main source of income for gangs.
In United States the consumption of these drugs caused the death of 174 people in 2016 by poisoning, in number exceeding deaths by firearms, motor vehicle accidents, suicides and homicides.
While in 2017, the synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, caused the death of around 30 thousand people. This attribute, in part, to the increase in production of Mexican heroin between 2016 and 2017, which grew by 37%.
“Mexican cartels continue to produce large quantities of methamphetamine at low price and send it to us through the southern border. Seizures at the border increased from 8,900 pounds in 2010 to nearly 82,000 so far of the 2018, “said Uttam Dhillon, interim administrator of the DEA.
As part of their work to prevent the illegal transfer of drugs, the DEA highlights accusations towards fentanyl traffickers Chinese, and the extradition of Mexican drug traffickers extradited, as in the case of Joaquin Guzman Loera.
In addition to this announced the creation of the task force against transnational organized crime, which will focus primarily on curb the activities of: Jalisco new generation Cartel, the Sinaloa Cartel, the Clan of the Gulf and the Lebanese Hezbollah.

Original source in Spanish