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    The fentanyl crisis

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    2018-06-12
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    Hartney, Elizabeth
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    Fentanyl; Overdose
    Abstract
    Although the medical use of fentanyl has declined recently, illicit fentanyl and its analogs and derivatives have become a significant part of the larger opioid crisis which has spread across the United States and Canada, as well as many other countries. The fentanyl crisis is claiming the lives of hundreds of people each month.
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    This is an open peer-reviewed article available at https://www.verywellmind.com/fentanyl-analogs-and-derivatives-4165882
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    https://www.verywellmind.com/fentanyl-analogs-and-derivatives-4165882
    http://hdl.handle.net/10613/6193
    http://dx.doi.org/10.25316/IR-1117
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