Prescription fentanyl, a highly potent and immediate-release drug meant for people with advanced cancer who have been on an opioid treatment, has been inappropriately prescribed to people who did not meet the criteria, says a new study by Johns Hopkins University researchers.The researchers, using more...
PureRadiancePhoto / Shutterstock.com Fentanyl is a powerful form of opioid given to patients who are suffering from severe pain. The medication is about 100 times more powerful than morphine. A new study shows that a large number of patients who should not have received something so...
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Drug makers and federal regulators dropped the ball in tracking the use of a potentially deadly fast-acting form of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, putting thousands of patients at risk of a fatal overdose, a new study claims. Transmucosal Immediate-Release Fentanyl, or TIRF, drugs are approved for...
My son was the first person to be murdered by fentanyl in this state. It was on Jan. 2, 2015, in Roxbury. He was my only child. I wasn’t even supposed to be able to get pregnant. Now part of my life is gone. Debbie Deagle’s son...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A Salisbury man plead guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to possess and to distribute fentanyl and fentanyl analogues, chemicals designed to have similar effects to fentanyl and just as deadly. According to 38-year-old Narada Walls’ plea agreement, he was part of a conspiracy, using...
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SHREVEPORT, La. — Two Texas men were sentenced to 63 months in prison Tuesday for trafficking more than 10 kilograms of...
BALTIMORE, Md. - A Salisbury man is facing more than a decade in prison after he pleaded guilty to dealing fentanyl and fentayl-like products across Maryland's Eastern Shore. One person died from ingesting the drugs in his possession. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Narada Walls,...
My only experience with fentanyl was when I was pregnant. I was on a hospital bed writhing in agony when a nurse injected me with the synthetic opioid commonly used for pain management in laboring women. The drug calmed me and I soon gave birth...