fentanyl
芬太尼
Definitions
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Pharmacology.
- : a synthetic, short-acting narcotic analgesic and sedative, C22H28N2O, used pharmacologically in anesthesia and neuroleptanalgesia, and also as an illicit drug: Medics quickly administered fentanyl to the injured soldiers.Drug dealers are lacing heroin with fentanyl.
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Most of the public aren’t seeking fentanyl or its analogs, but people are tainting things like heroin and oxycodone pills with fentanyl or an analog.
Bryan doesn’t have as bad a drug problem as other parts of Ohio, but it does have one—mostly meth, heroin, and fentanyl.
Synthetic opioids like fentanyl and carfentanyl accounted for the majority of overdoses, Houry says.
“When you lose their fentanyl, you generally lose all their other prescriptions,” he said, noting that few customers go to multiple pharmacies when they can get everything at one.
Reports detail that they found nearly 8 grams of fentanyl — a powerful heroin-like substance — in her bag.
The story of a wayward anesthesia trainee who took a near fatal dose of fentanyl hit the news this week.
Even if the dealer loads stamp bags with fentanyl and causes an overdose of 22 people in Pennsylvania?