Sentences with phrase «potent than heroin»

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.

In the U.S., fatal heroin overdoses have increased in the past decade by 300 percent, with fentanyl — a substance that is 20 to 50 times more potent than heroin — and its analogs increasingly contributing to overdoses.

Fentanyl, prescribed by doctors for cancer treatment, is up to 50 times more potent than heroin and up to 100 times more potent than morphine, according the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

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.

Not exact matches

«In addition, we are also encountering instances where the heroin has most likely been cut with fentanyl, a drug that can be anywhere from 10 to 100 times more potent than morphine.»