It seems to me that this could be equally profitable compared to street drugs if you take the inflated price for common prescription medicine and health care in the US into account. If you source prescription medicine from let’s say Canada or Mexico to undercut the official street prices in the US your risk of getting cought or run into trouble with law enforcement or rival gangs seems much lower. Also neighbors would not call the police on a guy that sources cheap insulin for the old guy living next door, or what am I missing?
It’s way easier to produce cocaine than it is to produce adderall and insulin? 🤷♂️
And, to be fair, some do. There’s a black market for baby formula, FFS. I’m sure OTC and prescription drugs are also sold by gangs. Especially when it comes to black markets selling things stolen by porch pirates that don’t even know what they stole until they open the packages.
Yeah, a friend got me Percocet from a dealer he knew back when I needed painkillers for medical reasons but was only given ibuprofen. It was expensive.
This was before the opioid epidemic. Probably just get offered fentanyl these days.