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It comes into mexico, where it is pressed into pill form or combined with heroin. the other way it comes in is american consumers buying it direct, oftentimes from vendors out of china. >> then it gets mailed in? >> u.s. mail, which is the most common, a very small quantity of fentanyl is very hard to detect in the masses of letters that come into the u.s. everyday. >> reporter: how effective is a wall at preventing drugs from getting into the united states? >> in terms of hard narcotics, i don't know that it's over hard narcotics. as of right now, the vast majority of hard narcotics comes in ...

And smuggle 100 kilograms of drugs across the border. it wasn't easy to do. they were likely to get caught. here's part of the problem. nowadays, they can smuggle across something that looks like this. this is just a one kilogram bag of flour but if this were street fentanyl it would cost about $8,000 to make, could be turned into a million pills and then sold for 20 to $30 million on the black market. all of that from a small container that looks like this. >> the vast majority of fentanyl is produced in china, that comes into the u.s. two ways, it comes into mexico where it is compressed int...

Feint fentanyl, which is 50 times stronger than heroin. it's the biggest challenge nowadays. the most recent numbers from the centers for disease control found that overdose deaths rows over 72% in just a year. >> in the past cartels might try and smuggle a hundred kilograms of drugs across the board. it wasn't easy to do. they were likely to get caught. but here is part of the problem. nowadays they could smuggle across something that looks like this. this is just a one kilogram bag of flour. if this were street fentanyl it would cost about $8,000 to make. it could be turned into a $3 million...

Is using a revolutionary technique to combat addiction. it is truly amazing. joining us now to explain how this all works is biocorrect ceo, his name is brady granye. thank you so much for being here. how does this work. >> drexel has been around for a long time. approved since 1985. oral and injectable form. blocks the receptors in the brain that give that you craving. it attaches to those opioid reseptemberrers. block cravings for alcoholism and block certain evenings of alcoholism and opioid abuse. ainsley: if it's been around for so long why are we just finding out about it? >> people didn...

Out to have very promising properties. we made modifications to that to give us our new synthetic peptide called dragon one. >> jenna: is that someone -- something someone would take a pill form? >> our primary focus in the application here is to have it as an ointment or cream to the site of the wound. >> jenna: we're showing some more pictures. the komodo dragon, there were some questions about how you would get from a komodo dragon because they may not like that. talk us through that process as well. >> komodo dragons are endangered and they are very protected and those dues are protective ...