Sentences with phrase «potent opioid drugs»

While considered much safer and non-addictive than potent opioid drugs like hydrocodone, it can also be prone to misuse and abuse.

Not exact matches

Since fentanyl is so much more potent than other opioid painkillers, drug traffickers only need to pack their drugs with small amounts of it to provide users a powerful punch.

An Oregon man is facing federal drug charges for allegedly importing potent opioids from China.

Countering this lethal side effect without losing opioids» potent pain relief is a challenge that has enticed drug developers for years.

And those drugs are sometimes spiked with more potent opioids such as fentanyl (SN: 9/3/16, p. 14) or even carfentanil, a synthetic opioid that's used to tranquilize elephants.

Increasingly, drug users are turning to opioids and powerful synthetic versions of these drugs that can sometimes be as much as 100 times more potent than heroin,» says Kim D. Janda, Ph.D., who led the research into the vaccines.

An Oregon man is facing federal drug charges for allegedly importing potent opioids from China.