Apr 26, 2024 · There are several reasons for the rising fears about fentanyl in Europe. The European Union estimates that most of the roughly 1 million European consumers of illicit …

In 2017, a spike in fentanyl-related deaths in the north of England and a series of police raids on suppliers led many to believe the super potent opioid had finally found its way into Britain’s...

Fentanyl is a narcotic analgesic acting predominately at the µ-opiate receptor. Apart from analgesia, the fentanyls as a group produce drowsiness and euphoria, the latter being less …

May 18, 2023 · Fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, is killing Americans - and San Francisco residents - at an alarming rate. Between January and March of 2023, 200 people died of …

Oct 18, 2023 · Fentanyl is 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times stronger than heroin, and its use is not just an American issue: while the USA accounted for 19.3 % of global …

Sep 21, 2023 · The EU needs to prepare for a surge in the synthetic drug fentanyl, Ylva Johansson, the EU's home affairs commissioner, told POLITICO following a warning from U.S. …

Jul 11, 2024 · Concern has grown in the EU over the use of synthetic opioids, a crisis that has engulfed the United States over the last 10 years. Fentanyl has become the primary cause of …

Nov 16, 2023 · Drugs of fentanyl’s ilk currently kill around 70,000 Americans a year, more than died in the wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan combined. In Europe, that brand of junk …

Fentanyl is a highly potent synthetic piperidine opioid primarily used as an analgesic. It is 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine; [11] its primary …

Information on the illicit use of fentanyl in Europe is both patchy and scarce. As with findings on fentanyl availability, the evidence suggests diverse national situations with regard to the use of …