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  2. Fentanyl - Wikipedia

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    On 19 January 2018, the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner said that musician Tom Petty's 2017 death was an accidental drug overdose as a result of mixing medications that included fentanyl, acetyl fentanyl, and despropionyl fentanyl (among others). He was reportedly treating "many serious ailments" that included a broken hip.

  3. Reagent testing - Wikipedia

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    Reagent testing is one of the processes used to identify substances contained within a pill, usually illicit substances. With the increased prevalence of drugs being available in their pure forms, the terms "drug checking" or "pill testing" [1] may also be used, although these terms usually refer to testing with a wider variety of techniques covered by drug checking.

  4. Fentanyl test strips are being used by drug dealers to ... - AOL

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    Law enforcement officials warn that drug dealers now use fentanyl test strips on their pills and then post photos on social media to prove their drugs are “clean.”

  5. Drug test - Wikipedia

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    The antibody will then react with the drug-protein conjugate and a visible colored line will show up in the test line region of the specific drug strip. [20] A common misconception is that a drug test that is testing for a class of drugs, for example, opioids, will detect all drugs of that class.

  6. Fentanyl in other drugs: Why do drug dealers mix them? What ...

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    In addition to the added potency, the drug has a “low cost,” which leads drug dealers to mix fentanyl with drugs like “heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine, increasing the likelihood of a ...

  7. Overdose deaths hit new heights in the U.S. this year, a fourth wave of the overdose epidemic, in which a growing number of drug users die with multiple substances in their systems.

  8. Opioid overdose - Wikipedia

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    Concerning the 2017 data in the charts below, deaths from the various drugs add up to more than 70,200 because multiple drugs are involved in many of the deaths. [2] According to the National Safety Council, the lifetime odds of dying from an overdose in the United States is 1 in 96. [68] Drug overdose deaths in the US per 100,000 people by state.

  9. Median lethal dose - Wikipedia

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    The median infective dose (ID 50) is the number of organisms received by a person or test animal qualified by the route of administration (e.g., 1,200 org/man per oral). Because of the difficulties in counting actual organisms in a dose, infective doses may be expressed in terms of biological assay, such as the number of LD 50 s