Synthetic opioids have been wreaking havoc across the United States for a over a quarter century. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates the opioid crisis began around 1999 when prescription opioid attributed deaths began to rise. loading...

It's been roughly a dozen years since synthetic opioids began to dominate the illegal drug scene. Synthetics, of which fentanyl has been the king of the roost, are made in powder form, pressed into pills, and mixed into other drugs (like heroin for example) for distribution.

The latest synthetic opioid raising alarms is another drug that was created in the mid 20th Century (1950s) but deemed too dangerous to be released on the market. Even though the goal was to create another type of pain reliever, the drug was found to be highly

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