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BOSTON — Employees at a drug company, accused of bribing doctors, rapped and danced around a life-size bottle of the highly addictive fentanyl spray in a video meant to motivate sales reps into getting patients on higher doses. The video was shown to jurors this week in the closely watched ...
... fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid responsible for tens of thousands of American drug deaths annually, as a controlled substance. Schumer’s legislation — known as the Fentanyl Sanctions Act — would direct U.S. officials to publicly identify foreign opioid traffickers, would deny the traffickers visas in the U.S. and would ...
... border crossings, an increasing amount is being detected on the border with Arizona, a state where the Sinaloa cartel controls the drug trade and fatal fentanyl overdoses are rising. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says in a recent report that fentanyl is now the drug most often ...
... effect. https://twitter.com/RyanMarino/status/1041342421953593346 There are valid reasons for concern about exposure to fentanyl-containing products, although most of them are theoretical. Fentanyl and its analogs are exceedingly potent — small doses can lead to life-threatening toxicity. However, fentanyl is not volatile, meaning that the powdered drug ...
... and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seize the most amount of heroin along the Mexico border, near San Diego, California, the report said. Fentanyl and other related opioids, which tend to be cheaper and much more potent than heroin, remain one of the biggest concerns for federal drug ...
Nebraska carried out its first execution in more than two decades on Tuesday with a drug combination never tried before, including the first use of the powerful opioid fentanyl in a lethal injection.
... extreme exposures to fentanyl and carfentanil. The key may be upping the dosage of methadone or buprenorphine, so a user can’t get high off fentanyl, or increasing access to these medication-assisted therapies. But he also floated a fentanyl vaccine as one potential option for the future. “That's ...
... made a rare invitation to a team of AP journalists to discuss the issue at the powerful Ministry of Public Security. Beijing has long regulated fentanyl and 18 related compounds, and in February also placed carfentanil's less-potent cousins furanyl fentanyl, acryl fentanyl and valeryl fentanyl under control. Friday ...
With the advent of fentanyl and other highly potent synthetic drugs, many states are amplifying those policies and adding new programs to protect drug users from deadly contaminants in heroin, cocaine and other illicit drugs.
... Forensic Laboratory. On the left is a lethal dose of heroin, equivalent to about 30 milligrams; on the right is a 3-milligram dose of fentanyl, enough to kill an average-sized adult male. Fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is up to 100 times more ...
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