The Briefing Room
General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on May 05, 2018, 01:46:01 pm
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Fentanyl: What You Should Know
By Nick Tate
May 1, 2018 -- Fentanyl, the synthetic narcotic painkiller implicated in the 2016 overdose death of singer Prince, has been named a chief culprit in the nation’s opioid crisis, a new study finds.
“The findings …. confirm what front-line health care and law enforcement professionals in towns and cities across the country know from firsthand experience: deadly synthetic opioids like fentanyl are now the main drivers of drug overdose deaths in the United States,†says Linda Richter, PhD, director of policy research and analysis for the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.
Richter and other experts talked about fentanyl, how it works, and why it is so lethal when misused.
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20180501/fentanyl-what-you-should-know (https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20180501/fentanyl-what-you-should-know)