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A powerful opioid valuable in medicine, but so potent in tiny doses that it drives most overdose deaths.
means A synthetic opioid used medically for severe pain relief, and infamous as the drug driving most opioid overdose deaths due to how little it takes to kill.
from A chemical name for a synthetic opioid, first synthesized in 1959 by Belgian chemist Paul Janssen as a surgical anesthetic. Its later role in the overdose crisis is a hard lesson in how potent it is.
- potency
- roughly 50 times stronger than heroin
- lethal dose
- about 2 milligrams, a few grains of sand
- origin
- developed in 1959 as a surgical anesthetic
- street risk
- often mixed into other drugs undetected