Are dropping fentanyl-related death rates concealing other issues in the fight against this brutal form of addiction?

The US death toll from fentanyl is falling as communities hand out overdose-reversal drug naloxone. Behind the good news, opioids remain rife – and users report harrowing effects from the antidote.

Fentanyl is dangerous both because of its strength, which makes it easy to overdose, as well as the fact that it can easily ...

This dosage did not provide adequate pain relief and so the patch strength was increased to 50µg fentanyl/h. This slightly higher dosage provided effective analgesia. She reported no adverse ...

The Republican National Committee vowed in its 2024 platform to “deploy the U.S. Navy to impose a full Fentanyl Blockade on the waters of our Region — boarding and inspecting ships to look for ...

These situations can arise from the misuse of prescription pain medications or illicit drugs like heroin and fentanyl, as well as the ingestion of substances unknowingly laced with an opioid like ...

This could make the fentanyl problem far worse ... Using known K i values we can construct a table that gives a rough idea of the relative strength of binding of four drugs to μ-opioid receptors: It ...