Word: fentanyls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world alongside it: a small world within a world where the population looks either sinister or dead and the language is jazz or chemistry. Set me straight, man? Got any splim? Red? Strawberry? I got the Rams, man. Don't give me no Rooster Brand. Officials warn of fentanyl and phenylalkylamines. It is all arcane...
Heroin addicts on the West Coast are discovering slightly altered forms (known as analogs) of Fentanyl, an anesthetic widely used during prolonged surgery. One form, dubbed "China White," is 1,000 to 2,000 times as strong as heroin...
...encountered designer drugs in 1979, when they found two young addicts lying dead near samples of a heroin-like powder. Thirteen more users had died before Forensic Chemist Donald Cooper of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration managed to identify the substance. It was a designer version of the anesthetic fentanyl, which is widely used during prolonged surgery. The variant was many times as powerful as heroin; just a little could be an overdose...
...drug was outlawed in 1981, but another modified fentanyl instantly appeared on the streets; when the second drug was banned, a third popped up. So far, six fentanyllike drugs have appeared, one of them a thousand times the strength of heroin. All told, they have killed at least 90 people...