The Golden Triangle connects Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar. The best opium in the world comes from Burma while Iran makes the purest, best heroin in the world. Anything through Vietnam comes from Chinese refineries and is shipped to the U.S.A to be cut with fentanyl. That gives you an almost guaranteed overdose as heroin by itself is nowhere near that lethal. It's been a very effective control tool along with leverage and enemy population/mind control. They come into the smallest of small towns, not just big cities. Almost every time it is a Chinese family who sells out their own and becomes threaded with a yakuza clan masquerading as a triad. They believe westerners are stupid who think they are only Japs and don't know or think they know the inner workings. This is repeatedly true. Mainland Chinese gangs who get the means to travel through Hong Kong also come over and start businesses (usually restaurants) who get in with police forces who work with them and traffic, rape, kill etc; this is why actual triad organizations call them frauds because they are not patriotic and work with police. Heaven And Earth Society has been against this since ancient time. It is important you keep all of this in mind.
Shills and whoever else can talk shit all they want. But hey, it's not like I have experience with this or anything. I'm just another person on the internet just like you, right? Ain't found a way to kill me yet.