The War on Fentanyl into America (with Special Agent Derek Maltz) | Borderland #15

On today's episode, Vince Vargas talks to retired DEA agent, Derek Maltz about the realities of the fentanyl epidemic in the United States.
Derek was also the Special Agent in Charge of the DOJ, Special Operations Division (SOD) for almost 10 years before he left the federal government, and previously held the position as the Chief of the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force, the oldest and largest drug task force in America.
Today, he is Executive Director at PenLink, which offers comprehensive solutions tailored for law enforcement, national security and defense sectors.
Borderland is an IRONCLAD Original
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[@Christisking1911]

I was addicted to opiates for close to 15 years. I watched it go from oxy’s we got from doctors, to black tar heroin, to china white, then fentanyl, and luckily got out before the current tranq. I have been sober 6 years, but I lost the majority of my close friends to overdose. I am blessed to be alive, and have become a very dedicated Orthodox Christian. America’s youth are spiritually lost, and will continue to seek drugs until we fix the root of their problems. Lord have mercy upon the youth of our nation.

[@LK-bz9sk]

Sober six years. Good going. Thats strength.

[@moblife223]

Nobody cool does drugs bud. Once you smoke crack meth heroine you're a goofy for life. No one cares how many years you've been sober. Weed and alcohol is borderline as it is.

[@The_Red_Off_Road]

@@moblife223did your mom hurt you?

[@moblife223]

@@The_Red_Off_Roadmy mom helped me get a 30 thousand dollar car and I'm paying her back 2 grand a month for it

[@moblife223]

@@LK-bz9sk strength is being sober your whole life 🤭

[@GrassAddicts]

Loving IronClad: BorderLands. It means a lot that there’s shows like this out there that MSM refuses to cover. Well done!

[@thisisironclad]

Thank you for your kind words! It means a lot to hear that you appreciate the show.

[@empressofkale]

Worked in methadone clinic on the border for 4 years. From observation, this man is correct about the process of how people ended up addicted to opiates. In 4 years I watched everyone's drug screens go from positive with heroin to nothing but fentanyl. Heroin isn't even available in my community anymore. The withdrawal from fentanyl is so horrible that people can't handle it. Most people are now using to be well. Other addiction factor is trauma history. Most clients I had, experienced significant amounts of childhood trauma.

[@leemackay888]

I'm in British Columbia Canada, hasn't been heroin up here since 2021.... Been clean and sober over a year but ya, you can't buy here in anymore , it don't exist up here ......

[@alexcarson9638]

Wow I lived on hasting in 2010 for 6 months with my dad just for fun I would buy flops of down lol it was safe back then but now it’s garbage my doc kicked me off my anxiety and sleep meds tho so yeah bs

[@thisisironclad]

It's eye-opening to hear about your experiences working in the methadone clinic. It's important to understand the complexities of addiction and how it evolves over time.

[@interstellarsurfer]

I'm glad Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force could join us to discuss the war on drugs. 👍

[@The_Red_Off_Road]

Let’s hope the neighbors stay out of his pool. 😂

[@thisisironclad]

Thanks for watching and appreciating our special guest appearance!

[@rainmetal]

Amen Ironclad! I will say it again its time for the most well armed nation to standup against the cartels.

[@thisisironclad]

Absolutely, it's time to take a stand against the cartels.

[@chrislee4946]

Loving this series! USA 🇺🇸 bringing light to really what’s going on

[@thisisironclad]

Thank you so much for your support! I'm glad you are enjoying the series.

[@4clover279]

WE NEED PODCASTER TO KEEP SPEAKING ON THIS. SQUEAKY WHEEL GETS THE OIL!!

[@thisisironclad]

let's keep the podcast discussions going!

[@montanagetaway6175]

I like this guy! Let him at it! Great attitude with the ready to attack mentality! Sucks it has to be like this, sorry for all the family's who have lost.

[@MakingRecovery]

The CDC has officially recognized that "ACES'S" resilience training is the most effective way to address childhood trauma and depression which often leads to addiction. Let's put this into action America please. 🙏🏻

[@victorgarrido9481]

Amen! For having the courage to speaking up!!!!!!!!

[@shelbyrobertson6495]

Thanks to both of you!!

[@thisisironclad]

Our pleasure!

[@scottyg5403]

Another outstanding interview! Great channel thank you so much for all the info! 🇺🇲🇺🇸🦅🦅

[@thisisironclad]

Our pleasure!

[@amyhinson1587]

Great episode. Thanks.

[@thisisironclad]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@dannycalder1638]

Loves this guys passion and straightforward attitude. Great info

[@thisisironclad]

I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

[@internet_internet]

I appreciate y’all.

[@whocares4464]

Interested to see if i learn anything new from this interview

[@thisisironclad]

Can't wait to hear your thoughts after watching the interview!

[@725k9]

Great channel!

[@thisisironclad]

I appreciate your support, it means a lot to us!

[@ianstauffer3973]

Amazing show

[@thisisironclad]

Thank you so much for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@erickelleher3911]

I'm still praying for this situation 🙏🏻 and I really appreciate and respect this guest, he is passionate. I always loved the New York accent and fire. God him and may he be heard along with all the others sounding the alarm. Thank you for giving voice to the crisis. Mater Dolorosa, ora pro nobis

[@thisisironclad]

Well said

[@nativedave1982]

remember when america and the contras?

[@user-Michoacan]

The U.S. government does not clean their own house!! 😂😂

[@outdoors4244]

Lost a family member to it on Christmas this past year. Local law enforcement and Massachusetts state police were useless and refused to go after the known dealer selling coke with fet in it. It's infuriating

[@Patriotx-gx4ce]

Even when you have all details and numbers of people dealing this poison DEA still no where to be in touch.

[@thisisironclad]

It's important to keep shining a light on these issues.

[@lilocboy79]

Great episode. I love the comment about this is not a red or blue (political) issue....It is a Red, White, and Blue (USA) issue. Keep up the fight!

[@thisisironclad]

Thank you for watching! I'm glad you enjoyed that part of the episode.

[@mobaysparta7476]

Precursors come from China. Let’s start there.

[@Mr_Clean]

The demand comes from doctors over prescribing and pill mills. When the prescription stuff gets too expensive you use the street stuff.

[@HeathenFitness]

Dudes definitely from Boston MA got the worst of the fentanyl crisis. Same with NYC (which has been a shithole) California etc

[@Patriotx-gx4ce]

20$ per f pill by time it gets to East Coast. Once they hook you they give it to you for 15 if you threaten to quit it. Worse drug ever does work for pain. Tablets full of human hair at least every 4th one.

[@whocares4464]

Tablets are as cheap as $1 a pill on the west coast and Arizona! This stuff is taking over and getting cheaper and cheaper than ever and top it off more potent with who knows what's in it!!! Street drugs are basically a toxic soup and you have no idea what's in these drugs

[@whocares4464]

Lol tubz deleting comments left and right lol who knows what you an say and what you can't lol oh man

[@whocares4464]

​@@Patriotx-gx4cewon't be long before those fake m30s are down to a buck or two per pill because they have been a dollar on the west coast and Arizona for years now

[@whocares4464]

On the west coast where these fake pills are so cheap people are smoking 100-200 pills a DAY!!! 100 A DAY!!!! Doesn't seem possible but I've heard story after story about people smoking none stop when they are awake

[@looneyrooney5322]

Love this shit!!! Eyes OPENED

[@Bee_Mavrick]

My cousin died recently of fentanyl.

[@whocares4464]

I've known four people who died from other drugs tainted with Fenty! People are dieing from drugs they didn't even realize they have!!! Street drugs are deadly with all these synthetic Drugs

[@thisisironclad]

I'm so sorry to hear about your cousin. It's important to raise awareness about the dangers of fentanyl.

[@donhammer186]

Hey these guy's are alright. Even if they are three decades behind.

[@brendandmcmunniii269]

Too shouty

[@LK-bz9sk]

Yes but darn passionate about the cause.

[@Checkmate6_]

Typical New Yorker...😂

[@MetaGuideMedia]

Look towards insurance companies for the source of why these people are being brought in.

[@alaskansummertime]

Why is he yelling? Decades in the DEA and more drugs and cheaper drugs than ever. Good job.

[@mikegeary8056]

It’s part of a eugenics program. That’s the answer.

[@gilbert13gonzalez]

The main problem is the consumers, stop them first then go after the cartels

[@SOLO-cj7zj]

Are you that daft in the head?😂

[@MrDual100]

Lobbyists turning a blind eye for cheap labor VS drugs and cartels taking advantage. Plausible deniability is a wonderful weapon that dilutes accountability for a possible invasion. Taxpayers and people in the middle of the socioeconomic spectrum can get crushed by this. AKA most people.

[@ceciliamares9042]

I am mexican from Guanajuato, please help us, I was a human trafficking víctim and I have been attacked many many times by cartel members with bioterroristic agena like mice mites/TYPHUS and other bacterias and other horrible things that they do to me and My family

[@BulletSrvr]

“If you live in America, there is a chance it will meet you right at your doorstep.” Here is what my story is dealing with the ramifications of our Government’s failed response. I lived in San Bernardino for 2 years before moving back to my hometown. But in the beginning I talked to my neighbor, a Chinese businessman who was here on a work trip, and needed to check up on his houses. He bought 7 houses in my neighborhood. No more than 3 months later, 7 Chinese families moved into those homes. They were dirty, left trash all over the place, and some of my other neighbors said they saw them walk outside with guns (I never saw that personally). Fast forward a year later, we have 3 swat vans, a bear-cat, at least 30 swat guys and more police. All of them were wearing gas masks and were breaking open every single window in the 7 houses. The swat guys dragged out hundreds of weed, and other drugs from each house with no trace of the “family” living there. The swat guys were breaking every window, door, and wearing gas masks because the “families” were using the gas main to quicken the grow time (idk if that was the case but one of the swat dudes said that) and if a match went off it could’ve exploded the entire neighborhood. We need to do something about this ASAP because if my family nearly came that close to dying, who knows what else is going to happen to others that aren’t as lucky as we were.

[@leemackay888]

Narcoterrorism, same thing happened in russia, they flooded the market with pure, cheap,afgan heroin.. stopped supply ,then introduced a home cook method to make krokodill....

[@CodInfiniteBS]

Outlandish 😢

[@tortoiseshell6666]

The fact their blaming us not only for our guns but for our people aswell😂

[@briangardner8140]

Chemical warfare

[@jongriggs6622]

I’d love to come on and talk about a job I did that was cartel operation and it involved banks local sheriffs and state actors from below the border all working together when I was a security contractor MccLain Farms look into it. I’m a police officer again now bc I’m worried and need that layer of protection.

[@ashog1426]

The pre cursor actually comes in from China

[@MiguelNunya]

Cartels...Cartels...Cartels nobody points at big pharma and govt for their "help" in the decadence of society 🙄

[@ferna377]

Why not take there customers 😅

[@ZachIsTerrible]

As much as I love the statement its not political. In practice it is and THAT is whats sad. That one party can say that all of these drugs being allowed is OK is despicable coming from an Oregonian who lives under legalized drugs had both aunt and uncle dying of fentanyl in the last year and grew up with two parents who were addicts one of which stayed an addict up until they passed two years ago at 50.

[@ryanrook5940]

Well, your intro sounded great and super Motivational, and you almost got it right but…BIG BUT to shut off the water is getting the precursors that are sent from mostly China(LIKE ALL OF OUR PHARMACEUTICAL, above 90% of pharma drug from BP to chemo drugs)THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO MASSIVE EXIT OFF CHEAP CHINESE CHEMICALS USED IN ALLLLLL OF OUR PHARMACEUTICAL!!!) and some other small parts of the world that are being sent to Mexico. Were they complete the process. If it wasn’t the Mexicans, who raise their hands to become billionaires, it would’ve been any other organized crime countries. That’s why your theory of just going down there with technology and shutting it off most likely will never work because there’s always somebody who will fill the demand and supply. I understand you’re talking Leman to people who don’t really know about this issue and you’re right, I’a majority of it crosses the southern border, but it’s also coming through the northern boarder. Xylazine and all its sister chemical make ups of that class other ZINES absolutely need to be shut down ASAP. From the little research, we have these class of drugs like stated in the video above are so strong they are tranquilizing people to be incapable to move for over 24 hours. from what I heard, there is a few different compound structures in the simazine class that they have come across and from the research we have on mice shows that the drug does attach to the mule opiate receptor, but also has a extremely strong sedative effect. This is why you have started to see people standing, but bent over at the waist with their heads at the ground for hours if not days! There’s even reports in the Philly and Toronto/Vancouver area, where young, very young people who use the drug are walking around as if they have terrible scoliosis of the spine and permanently canny get their spine too straighten out along with paralyzing body parts where they inject the drug/ N eating away tones of tissue extremely fast.

[@Mr_Clean]

In my opinion shutting off the valve would be eliminating the demand for the product.

[@markmanleyH2Oactivity]

I am, gonna weigh in on this ! *Listen carefully* --- >>> most people are hurtin >> & there is "your" need / desire / dependency on Harder substances ⚖️ you ALSO have to STOP all buy offs' & corruption *at every level*

[@bighorn4908]

Loud.

[@Rigo714]

Why not boots on the ground??? There never gonna stop it ,,if left to there own tactics

[@MaltedJacker]

😂😂😂

[@jonathanray83]

Borderland: Virginia

[@zinquips2887]

Some guy screaming into a webcam is not an effective way to communicate a message.

[@Crimepaysaskapolitician]

He's partially deaf

[@zinquips2887]

Constantly screaming at maximum volume is likely a contributing factor to his hearing impairment.

[@jackolantern404]

I was excited to hear about the topic and opinions! But, I just can't handle his constant yelling 🫠

[@naturallytoasty556]

This is ironic.. because with certain people getting kick backs and being in cahoots… we have to clean out our internal problem making $$ off it first. We can’t just say Mexico is the problem we have to address problems in the US too because supply .. needs .. DEMAND!

[@Crimepaysaskapolitician]

Without supply demand would dwindle.

[@naturallytoasty556]

@@Crimepaysaskapolitician yup

[@35t10b]

Whats the matter with boots on the ground? Weve invaded countries for far less

[@gregvilla3837]

This guy could take down any organization he sounds like a mob guy

[@jimmyhendrix4495]

Obvious and only solution is to close the border.

[@MNW777-k4c]

FJB and the dems

[@slappy8941]

The Recucklicans won't do shit either.

[@forestchild3511]

Close the border

[@forestchild3511]

We are under attack

[@zinquips2887]

Why is this guy screaming?

[@lonewolf30531]

This all started in a professional lab and then was pushed out to the street labs . Mexico did not start this trend. . Very sad .

[@kristibrz2798]

We need our Lord Jesus!

[@Seeking_Pelagics]

the dea works w drug dealers 😂

[@Xxskater4life8xX]

The crack epidemic was bad too

[@sarahwalker5347]

Absolutely. However, The fentanyl epidemic has resulted in a staggering number of overdose deaths compared to the crack epidemic. Crack Epidemic from 1985-2010 Approximately 40,000 Fentanyl Epidemic from 2010-2022 Approximately 400,000 The United States drug problem has needed urgent attention for decades but the fentanyl epidemic has brought heightened attention due to its catastrophic impact.

[@zinquips2887]

I can't listen to this guy screaming!

[@FalconEagleEye]

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[@cristianflores4370]

Viva Mexico 😈

[@Seeking_Pelagics]

non sense the one who feds the cartel is china go after the real creator R E T A R T E D American😂😂😂

[@ziruk-king4466]

I will tell you why-social media, iPhones, new generation has to much time on their hands, give this new generation a shovel and learn what hard work is.

[@Dave-eu3ib]

Take away JB 10% and close the border

[@jamisontaylor878]

Get this guy on the Trump team when its time😊

[@35t10b]

Fiddling while rome burns. We worry about pronouns rather than so many young people being poisoned

[@danielcook5029]

Need to put pressure on CIA and FBI that's whose putting it on the streets.

[@idol9633]

Lol cuz your competitive dudes a whole clown

[@richardhamilton2457]

I just don’t understand why he hast to yell into the microphone and that’s the reason I’m gonna stop watching today. I’m sure it’s a great conversation, but tell him to stop yelling into the dang microphone geez

[@michaelkowis]

This guy represents the totalitarian War on Drugs policies that have failed for over 50 years. He retired from an agency that cost the US the war in Afghanistan and countless lives demestically. He's just using images of dead civilians as propaganda. He's only concerned with attaining additional authority to violate the civil liberties and human rights of the American people. If he was concerned with protecting the American citizens and solving the US drug problem he would have spent 28 years working for the FDA regulating and supporting industries engaging in the development of effective non-lethal alternatives to the opium poppy based drugs. US companies should be supplying it's citizens with safe intoxicants instead of leaving the American consumer vulnerable to our foreign adversaries (the Chinese and the Mexican suppliers). The US companies should be providing the drugs and creating a tax base to pay for the retirements of longterm federal employees like this guy.

[@nomoneyglobal]

Exactly this. This guy represents the very failure he is talking about. It's been failure because there is no potential for success. The war on drugs is a fools errand. He even said the border was the most secure it's ever been during the last administration, the flow of drugs didn't decrease. The virus shut down the economy, the flow of drugs didn't decrease. A nuclear war wouldn't decrease the flow. There is no quick fix to the United State's drug problem. It would require a multi generational multi faceted societal and government shift and it would start and end at home, it wouldn't require anything abroad and focusing on that aspect is why we're here.

[@twojpan9774]

U cant change it the same like Afghan people .....how many years soldiers spent there....without any bigger results......colombian farmers are the same

[@MyAntonioavila]

The fentanyl came from the pharmaceutical companies

[@elviranajar799]

Facts!!!

[@MyAntonioavila]

I would never take advice from someone who says xanex is a good drug wtf thats crazy

[@ntxdirect1835]

Back to CCP. Opium wars part 2

[@clintxxxracerx9435]

Why is this dude screaming? Very hard to listen!

[@user-tp5ls5dd7e]

What you resist persists. Just go home.

[@ntxdirect1835]

This guy needs to stop yelling......hard to listen