Although opioids have received significant attention over the last year, fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is becoming a major player in the illicit drug market.
Although opioids have received significant attention over the last year, fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is becoming a major player in the illicit drug market.
‘A whole different crew of users’Fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. And according to the National Institute of Health , “synthetic opioids, including fentanyl, are now the most common drugs involved in drug overdose deaths in the United States.” In 2017, 59% of opioid-related deaths involved fentanyl, a notable increase from the 14.3% in 2010.
“Now the difference here is heroin of old was really confined to a smaller user group, but today’s heroin is much higher proof, it’s cheaper, and for a lot of people is snorted and smoked, much like cocaine,” Riley explained. “The old fear of AIDS or hepatitis because of a needle really has disappeared, and that’s attracted a whole different crew of users.”
Mike Vigil, former chief of operations for the DEA, told Yahoo Finance that the best way to curb this flow of drugs is by working with the countries it’s originating from. Dr. Ryan Marino, a medical toxicologist and assistant professor of emergency medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, detailed one of these myths: that people cannot overdose by touching or inhaling the drug in the air.
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