Fentanyl Treatment

What is Fentanyl and How is it Being Brought into the United States?

Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid first created by Dr. Paul Janssen in the late 1950s. Belgian Dr. Janssen was working with phenyl piperidines, one of which was already on the market. Meperidine, brand name Demerol, had already been synthesized from the phenyl piperidines by the Germans in the 1930s. Dr. Janssen was looking for […]

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Why Is Fentanyl Treatment So Much More Prevalent in Drug and Alcohol Rehab Centers Today?

Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid about 100 times more potent than morphine and roughly some 30 to 50 times stronger than heroin. It’s a legal pharmaceutical drug in the United States, but it’s in the very highest class of controlled substances, Schedule II, also called C-II. C-II drugs have legitimate medical uses but are

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