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But today, fentanyl can be ordered on the internet, by drug dealers and addicts, for an online overdose. As we first reported in april, tracking the source of this Illicit Trade is a story that begins with james rauh. Like most in akron, ohio, hed never heard of fentanyl, until the police told him his son was dead. James rauh they told me that the drug was so powerful that he was unable to finish his injection, and then he died immediately. Pelley he didnt even finish the inion . Rauh hed only. Only just started the injection. He didnt even have a chance. Pelley james rauhs son, tom, was 37 when he died in 2015. Hed started opioids years before, after an injury. When his prescription ran out, he turned to heroin. Hed been in and out of rehab more than half a dozen times when fentanyl inundated ohio. Rauh there was something extremely dangerous going on, because tom was a veteran addict. You know, he knew how to dose himself. He knew how much he could he could handle. I was wondering, how in the world this would get here and who would be selling it . Pelley one week after tom rauhs death, the mother of 23 yearold Carrie Dobbins grabbed her phone. Operator akron 911, what is the location of your emergency . Mother my daughter is dead. I just went, got home from work a little bit ago, and i went down in the basement. Shes dead operator please stay on the line with me, maam. You need to be very specific. Mother i think she did drugs. Pelley two deaths in akron in seven days made assistant u. S. Attorney matt cronin wonder where all the fentanyl was coming from. The target of an investigation, a lowlevel drug dealer, had the answer. Matt cronin the target said that he can get any drugs he could ever imagine, over the internet from china. Pelley cronins investigators went online and discovered overseas labs offering most any illegal drug. Cronin we just said, hey, according to the sources instructions, were interested in buying fentanyl. And the result was, to say the least, surprising. We have dozens, probably over 50 different Drug Trafficking networks reaching out to us, saying, we have fentanyl. We have even more powerful fentanyl analogs. Whatever you want, well get it for you, for cheap. Well get it for you in bulk. Pelley you got 50 replies . Cronin at least. Pelley and all of these came from where . Cronin it was universally china. Pelley what did you do next . Cronin instead of trying to find our way to a target, we had far too many. So what we decided to do was go through the list and see any that popped out. And one name in particular struck out, out of the list. Pelley what was that name . Cronin gordon jin. Pelley when gordon jin was making claims about what he could provide, what did he tell your undercover agents . Cronin what gordon jin said he could provide to you was essentially, any drug you could imagine those that exist, those that dont even currently exist. He called it custom synthesis. What it really meant was made toorder poison. Pelley well track down the man prosecutors say is gordon jin, in a moment. But first, have a look at fentanyl and its derivatives. Justin herdman is u. S. Attorney in cleveland. He told us some of this was seized by the d. E. A. The rest was found in the mail by u. S. Postal service inspectors. Justin herdman this is essentially enough fentanyl and carfentanyl to kill every man, woman and child in the city of cleveland. Pelley just this . Herdman just this. Pelley carfentanyl is a derivative used by veterinarians to tranquilize elephants. Herdman carfentanyl is another 100 times more potent than fentanyl. Here, youve got 300 grams of powder that could deliver a fatal dose to 150,000 people. Here, youve got only five grams of powder which could deliver a fatal dose to over 250,000 people. Pelley so if you touch this stuff, it could kill you . Herdman yeah pelley just touch it . Herdman theres a reason we have a medic standing by, scott, and thats because an overdose is unfortunately, its something that we have to be prepared for, even even dealing with it in an evidence bag. Pelley herdman showed us pills that look like prescription opioids, but are dangerous counterfeits. Herdman whether its cocaine, or you think its heroin, or you think its pills, its going to have fentanyl in it. Pelley why . Herdman its cheaper to buy fentanyl. And because its so potent, you can cut it in a way that you can deliver far more doses with a little bit of fentanyl. So its a profit motive for them. Pelley where did all this stuff come from . Herdman its from china. Its manufactured in china. These are all related to cases that involve the mail or the use of the postal system. So this, somebody put this into a box, sealed it up and sent it through the postal system. Pelley the United States postal system has been, for many years, the most reliable way to smuggle drugs from china to the u. S. Rob portman that has to stop. It shouldve stopped years ago. Pelley ohio senator rob portmans staff investigated the traffic. What did your offices investigation find . Portman shocking, what we found. Which was that people who were trafficking in fentanyl told us, if you send it through the post office, we guarantee delivery. If you send it through a private carrier, not so. Pelley thats because after 9 11, all private carriers like fedex were required to give u. S. Customs advance descriptions and tracking of foreign packages. The Postal Service was allowed to delay because of the cost. Portman they gave the post office some time, and said, you need to give us a report as to how you can also comply with this. That was 16 years ago, scott. Its primarily produced in laboratories in china, and its primarily coming to the United States through the United States mail system. Pelley portman sponsored a bill to force the post office to send advance notice of shipments from china. And last fall, the bill became law. Portman we now have this legislation in place. They need to impnt i ickl they need to do Everything Possible to screen these packages coming in. Pelley but the Postal Service was supposed to do that by the end of last year. It says china is not cooperating. About a third of the packages from china, shipped by the u. S. Postal service, still do not have advance content information. Cronin the gordon jin Drug Trafficking organization, in their own communications and advertisements online, say that they ship to five continents, in all 50 states. They advertised, and it seemed accurate, they had special ways to bypass customs in the u. S. , the u. K. , the e. U. And russia. Pelley assistant u. S. Attorney matt cronin told us that gordon jin would often slip fentanyl past u. S. Customs by shipping it to a coconspirator in the United States, posing as a legitimate chemical company. Shipments between Chemical Companies werent considered suspicious. A large crate would arrive at the u. S. Company, but inside, there would be as many as 50 individual drug packages, each addressed to the person whod ordered them. Cronin so they take out these 50 different parcels and send it across the United States and, as i mentioned, even the world. Pelley they were going out to the door of the individual people that ordered them online. Cronin thats right. We realized that we found gordon jins Drug Trafficking route, essentially his camouflage to get the drugs into the United States. Pelley according to prosecutors, gordon jin, is an alias for a father and son drug lab in china. Matt cronin briefed chinese authorities on the evidence, but the chinese failed to act. Later, a grand jury in the United States indicted the father and son, and theyre now wanted in the u. S. , but they enjoy freedom in china. 60 minutes producer bob anderson found Guanghua Zheng, the father, outside a Shanghai Grocery store. Robert anderson this is you and your son. This is put out in the u. S. To arrest you in the u. S. Pelley when anderson asked zheng if he was still selling fentanyl in the u. S. , zheng answered with an emphatic, no no the woman with him did not like our questions. She tells him, dont speak, dont speak she tells us, dont come back. Anderson will the Chinese Government ever arrest you . Will the Chinese Government ever arrest you . Pelley he said, the Chinese Government has nothing to do with it. Anderson what do you say to parents . What do you say to parents whose children died from taking your drugs . Pelley zheng had no answer for that. But, he had had enough of 60 minutes. Prosecutors say that the fentanyl that killed Carrie Dobbins and tom rauh came from the gordon jin lab in china and arrived in akron via the u. S. Postal service. Cronin the thing that got me the most, though, was how brazen they were. They wrote a blog and posted it on a website about how they create a certain type of synthetic narcotic. And they stated in that blog that its tied to overdoses. In other words, that its so potent, it can kill you. Pelley why would they want to associate themselves with people whod died using these drugs . Cronin the unfortunate truth is that when you have an addict, sometimes theyre seeking the greatest high possible, and that can be the high that comes closest to death. Pelley and so they were bragging. Cronin absolutely. Pelley that their drugs were so potent, that people had overdosed and died. Cronin they were the best out there. Thats right. Pelley their boast was tragically true for the son of james rauh. Rauh it destroys families. Because what happens to a family is, a person gets sick, and youre trying to help them, and youre trying to do everything that you can. And then you lose them, and so you suffer. You suffer up to that point, and then you suffer when they die, and then you suffer afterwards, because you could have stopped it. You feel that every single day. You think, what could i have done to stop this from happening to my family . I was in charge. I didnt do this right, and its its breaking my heart. Pelley the u. S. Has sealed off the overseas Bank Accounts of Guanghua Zheng and his son. The feds also shut down what prosecutors say were thengs 40 websites selling Illegal Drugs in 20 languages. We dont know if their lab shut down, but the network has been, at least for now. Cronin it is a fact that the peoples republic of china is the source for the vast majority of synthetic opioids that are flooding the streets of the United States and western democracies. 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What causes it is unclear, but it attacks the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, which control personality and speech, and its always fatal. It is not alzheimers disease, which degrades the part of the brain responsible for memory. With f. T. D. , people either display such bizarre behavior that their loved ones can hardly recognize them, or they lose the ability to recognize themselves. As we first reported in may, thats what happened to tracey lind one day, a few years ago, as she was standing in a public restroom. Tracey lind i was washing my hands, and i looked in the mirror, and i did not recognize my own face. Whitaker didnt recognize yourself. Lind no. I looked in the mirror, and i kept looking, and i remember i kept looking at this woman, wondering, who was she . Whitaker this is who she was the very reverend tracey lind, dean of the episcopal cathedral in cleveland, ohio, one of the citys most prominent preachers and civic leaders. She was 61 years old when both she and her spouse Emily Ingalls began to notice trouble with things tracey had always done very well; like finding the right word, recognizing congregants and friends faces, and, of course, her own. Lind thats when i said, oh, man. Ive got to go see a doctor. Whitaker when that happened, were you were you scared . Lind oh, i was scared to death. Whitaker emily, what did you think was happening . Emily ingalls i thought, theres something not right with her brain. Whitaker on election day 2016, tracey lind got the diagnosis frontotemporal dementia. She has whats called the speech variant of the disease, which, among other things, attacks the part of the brain where language lives. Lind sometimes you just youre fine and youre on. And then there are other times that the words just dont come out. I mean, it even if i know what the word is, somet sometimes i feel like im playing bingo. And when i find the word, its i. I shout it. I like, i feel like an imbecile, you know. Apple. Oh, yeah apple, thats it. And i get all excited. Whitaker this is acutely painful for tracey, because being a powerful, effective speaker has always been at the core of her identity. One of the first things you did once you got this diagnosis was to resign from your job as dean at trinity cathedral. Lind right. Whitaker whyd you take that action so quickly . Lind mainly, it was, i knew i was starting to fail, even though i was faking it pretty well. Whitaker since stepping down, tracey and emily have traveled around the country and the world, speaking and preaching about her f. T. D. Or as tracey puts it, telling the story of dementia from the inside out. Lind i was determined to live what i had been preaching for over 30 years; that out of pain comes joy. Im going to face this disease called f. T. D. That id never heard of b