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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