Sentences with phrase «powerful synthetic drug»

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Gov. Cuomo revealed Monday that an arrest was made over the weekend by state troopers for the sale of K2, a powerful synthetic drug.

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The synthetic opioid fentanyl is so powerful that it could cause accidental overdoses in the very first responders who trying to save its victims, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) warned in new guidelines released Tuesday.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP)-- Some of the pills taken from Prince's estate in Paisley Park after his death were counterfeit drugs that actually contained fentanyl — a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin, an official close to the investigation said.

That is why, in the twentieth century, powerful opiates and opioids (an opioid is a synthetic drug that mimics opium) were largely taboo — confined to patients with serious cancers, and often to end - of - life care.

But instead of prescription pills, they often receive the even - more dangerous heroin and, more recently, synthetic fentanyl — a drug 15 times more powerful than morphine.

Narcotics dealers selling chemically altered mixtures that contain the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl can face weaker punishments because of a loophole in state law that exempts certain drug mixes from being illegal controlled substances.

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 one of the most elaborate feats of synthetic biology to date, a research team has engineered yeast with a medley of plant, bacterial, and rodent genes to turn sugar into thebaine, the key opiate precursor to morphine and other powerful painkilling drugs that have been harvested for thousands of years from poppy plants.

In addition to providing a simple and much less expensive means of making artemisinin, the most powerful anti-malaria drug in use today, synthetic biology can also help to extend the effectiveness of this drug...

A powerful new synthetic drug is surgically implanted into her stomach.

She was electrifying as an alien seductress in Jonathan Glazer's 2013 horror Under the Skin and is at her very best in Luc Besson's high - concept action thriller Lucy, which opened here yesterday, playing a women whose mind becomes explosively powerful after she's injected with a synthetic drug.