Sentences with phrase «powerful than heroin»

While prescription painkillers have played a role in the epidemic, crackdowns mean many now get opioids on the street — including fentanyl, which can be 100 times more powerful than heroin.

The letter is designed to keep insurers from placing arbitrary limits on the number of naloxone doses that are covered since fentanyl can be up to 50 times more powerful than heroin and it can take multiple doses of naloxone to reverse a fentanyl overdose, Cuomo aides said.

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.

Not exact matches

Deaths from the illicit and powerful opioid heroin increased more than sevenfold over that span, to nearly than 13,000.

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.

The drug is considered particularly dangerous because it is more powerful than morphine or heroin, and takes only a tiny dose to be lethal.

The drug often is implicated in clusters of overdose deaths when it is mixed with heroin and users do not realize what they are taking is more powerful than usual.

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.

«They re well - known to stimulate a release of endorphins, these powerful pleasure chemicals that are thousands of times stronger than heroin.