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Overview Knowledge of Fentanyl and Heroin: A Deadly Combination, Methadone (De) Addiction and Laws, for the Adolescents in India

Nitish Kumar Raghav, Monica Khanna, Bimla Rani, Simmi Thind

Abstract


Fentanyl is a potent narcotic synthetic opioid 80-100 times stronger than morphine. It is a mu-opoid agonist. It has analgesic and anesthetic properties. Fentanyl was first developed in 1959 and introduced in 1960 as intravenous anesthetic and its powerful pain killing activity diverted it to misuse. Fentanyl is added to heroin to enhance its potency or disguised as highly potent heroin. Most of the users think that they are buying heroin but actually don’t know that they are purchasing fentanyl and don’t have tolerance to fentanyl thus over dosage results in death.

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