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Dr. Bonnie Milas, an intensive care anesthesiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, uses fentanyl in combination with other drugs to treat critical patients. She also lost two sons to ...
As fentanyl hidden in a high percentage of illicit street drugs continues to kill, momentum to legalize strips that check for the presence of the synthetic opioid is growing.
Another fentanyl bust: Busted Volusia drug gang was mixing dangerous animal tranquilizer with fentanyl, police say Mixing fentanyl with other drugs is nothing new; authorities have alerted to it ...
Fentanyl sold as or laced into heroin has made the news in the past due to the numerous fatalities it causes when it appears on the market. Recently, Fentanyl and close analogues have been produced in pure powder form for very cheap. Dealers may cut with or sell heroin with Fentanyl due to the street cost of Fentanyl versus the cost of heroin.
Fentanyl is used to help relieve shortness of breath when patients cannot tolerate morphine, or whose breathlessness is refractory to morphine. Fentanyl is useful for such treatment in palliative care settings where pain and shortness of breath are severe and need to be treated with strong opioids.
Eating more nutrient-dense foods and fewer ultra-processed ones is especially important for children and older adults. Their changing bodies have different energy needs and require higher-quality ...
Side effects of fentanyl analogs are similar to those of fentanyl itself, which include itching, nausea and potentially serious respiratory depression, which can be life-threatening. Fentanyl analogs have killed hundreds of people throughout Europe and the former Soviet republics since the most recent resurgence in use began in Estonia in the ...
And while adults are the ones most affected by opioids, federal data show that the rate of overdose deaths more than doubled among kids and teens ages 10 to 19 during the first two years of the ...