1 New England Journal of Medicine.įentanyl has been increasingly found in drugs seized by law enforcement, said Emily Feinstein, executive vice president of the Center on Addiction, in New York City. Three of the patients died from their overdose, Khatri and her colleagues reported in the Nov.
She's an emergency medicine resident with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. "None of them had intended to use opioids or fentanyl, but their drug testing as well as their clinical presentation argued they had been exposed to pretty high doses of fentanyl," said study lead author Dr.
Within a recent four-day period, a Philadelphia hospital treated 18 patients for an apparent opioid overdose even though they'd only been smoking crack cocaine, researchers report. 31, 2018 (HealthDay News) - Fentanyl, a powerful and dangerous synthetic opioid, is now showing up in crack cocaine and causing life-threatening overdoses.
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