Not exact matches
Center stage on what experts consider to be a worsening
opioid crisis are heroin and the
synthetic opioid fentanyl — 30 to 40 times more
potent than heroin by weight — and fentanyl - related medicines such as carfentanil — 300 to 400 times stronger than heroin by weight, said Dr. Daniel Ciccarone, a professor of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
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.