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News & Views: How the prescription painkiller fentanyl became a street drug
Posted on August 27, 2015 by Katherine Malanson | Categories: ND Unit5, Neurological Disorders | | Add comment |

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The synthetic opioid fentanyl is used for surgery and to treat severe pain. Abuse has always been a problem. Now that it’s being used to cut heroin, the risk of overdose or death has soared.

Read more at NPR.org.