fentanyl

The effects of opioid policy changes on transitions from prescription opioids to heroin, fentanyl and injection drug use: a qualitative analysis

Scientific article

21 July 2022

Background Beginning in the 1990s, non-medical use of prescription opioids (POs) became a major public health crisis. In response to rising rates of opioid dependence and fatal poisonings, measures were instituted to decrease the...

The Dangers of Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogs

Leaflet, Infographic, Fact sheet, Poster

This resource highlights the dangers of fentanyl and fentanyl analogs including fentanyl being the driver behind the opioid-related deaths in the U.S., potency, their use as adulterants and in making counterfeit pills, common routes of...

After Record Drug Bust, Questions of Opioid Crisis Creeping into Asia

News

VOA reports on the first seizure of fentanyl in Myanmar, raising concerns that a new route is opening up for the powerful synthetic drug. Additionally, the article highlights the production of crystal methamphetamine in the Shan state. Also...

VOA - Myanmar police officers inspect seized drugs during a destruction ceremony of seized narcotic drugs on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, June 26, 2017.

UN Issues Warning after Myanmar Raids Net Record Breaking Fentanyl Seizures

News

The discovery of a large seizure of fentanyl in Myanmar indicates that the country may be a new transit route for the powerful synthetic opioid, fentanyl.

Fentanyl Deaths on the Rise

News

Deaths caused by the drug fentanyl are on the rise in the UK, a recent report published by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) warns. The report, which included a a literature review of the effects of fentanyl, details of...

New York Drug Bust Seizes Enough Fentanyl to Kill 2 Million People

News

Police raided a home in New York that was an alleged heroin and fentanyl mill, seizing five kilograms of fentanyl and six kilograms of heroin. The fentanyl seized has the potency to kill 2 million people.

Overdose Deaths Involving Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogs — New York City, 2000–2017

Scientific article

18 January 2019

Summary What is already known about this topic? During 1999–2017, the rate of drug overdose deaths nationally approximately tripled; approximately 70,000 overdose deaths occurred nationally in 2017, with nearly 68% involving an opioid. What...

Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths: United States, 2011–2016

Scientific article

12 December 2018

Abstract Objective: This report identifies the specific drugs involved most frequently in drug overdose deaths in the United States from 2011 through 2016. Methods: Record-level data from the 2011–2016 National Vital Statistics System...

Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opioids Drug Overdose Deaths

Website

1 May 2018

A infographic resource from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) exploring the drug related death statistics relating to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids reported in the United States. With nearly 50% of opioid related deaths...

Heroin Uncertainties: Exploring Users’ Perceptions of Fentanyl-Adulterated and -Substituted ‘Heroin’

Scientific article

17 July 2017

Abstract Background The US is experiencing an unprecedented opioid overdose epidemic fostered in recent years by regional contamination of the heroin supply with the fentanyl family of synthetic opioids. Since 2011 opioid-related overdose...