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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Which results in pain relief and the effects sought by the recreational drug users. Also, due to the chemical nature of the drug it can be stored in fatty tissue and subsequently, two to 24 hours later, redistributed in the blood stream resulting in a phenomenon known as “re-narcotisation” where the effects of the drug are observed again in an overdose patient after they have been stabilised.Although there are legitimate sources of carfentanil for veterinary medicine, illicit sources are often traced to China where it is made to order and then exported to the US through Canada or Mexico. However, it is also reported that there are several vendors with US-based internet addresses that also make carfentanil – suggesting that manufacture also occurs outside of China. Thirteen milligrams of carfentanil is enough to knock out an elephant. Danita Delimont / Alamy Stock Photo No new fentanyl derivatives – for nowThankfully, the production of new fentanyl-based compounds seems to have slowed. In Europe, eight new fentanyl derivatives were reported in 2016 and ten in 2017. However, no new fentanyl derivatives were reported in the period 2021 to 2023. In this period, the new compounds have been dominated by another group of opioids called nitazenes.A changing drug market does not diminish the dangers presented by carfentanil. Although an antidote to the drug called naloxone is available, multiple doses are often needed to revive a person who has overdosed on carfentanil. Unfortunately, because of carfentanil’s potency, it can be hard for toxicology laboratories to detect traces of the drug in post-mortem blood – which may mask the true extent of the deaths the drug causes. There are also no standard methods for screening street samples for the drug. This is, indeed, a very worrying drug.
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