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Fentanyl: The Drug Fueling America’s Opioid Epidemic

Fentanyl is a powerful opioid that has significantly impacted on the ongoing opioid crisis in the United States—so much so that it has almost single-handedly produced the latest “third wave”. Between 2013 and 2016, overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids such as fentanyl increased by 540%, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control…

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Why Is Fentanyl So Dangerous?

Fentanyl—an extremely potent synthetic opioid—has been all over the news, and all over the illicit drug market, for several years now. Fentanyl was first developed in 1959, then was introduced in the 1960s as an intravenous anesthetic. Though it has been around for decades, its profound and fatal impact on humans didn’t really take off…

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How to Test for Fentanyl

Fentanyl is largely responsible for the increase in overdoses in recent years. It’s been found that fentanyl-laced drugs are increasingly common. This includes heroin, cocaine, meth, and other common street drugs as well as reformulated prescription pills that are made to look like a replica of a familiar drug. Now more than ever, those who…