Fentanyl
Fentanyl, also spelled fentanil, is an opioid used as a pain medication and together with other medications for anesthesia. It is also used as a recreational drug, often mixed with heroin or cocaine. It has a rapid onset and its effects generally last under two hours. Medically, it is used by injection, nasal spray, skin patch, or absorbed through the cheek (transmucosal) as a lozenge or tablet.Common side effects include vomiting, constipation, sedation, confusion, hallucinations, nausea, and injuries related to poor coordination. Serious side effects may include decreased breathing (respiratory depression), serotonin syndrome, low blood pressure, addiction, or coma. Fentanyl …
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AU: African Union · 24 October 2024 English
The nexus and the negative impact of illicit drug trafficking and related crime in Africa are well documented1 and has hitherto hindered the achievement of the 2030 United Nations Sustainable …
formulation (fig.2). Fig. 2: Significant individual fentanyl and tramadol seizures over 1kg in weight, 2017-2022 …
UNODC: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime · 17 October 2024 English
7 EXPLANATORY NOTES The designations employed and the presentation of the The following abbreviations have been used in the material in the World Drug Report do not imply the present …
and Middle East, and South-Eastern Europe, and fentanyl or incomes and instead address the root structural … include highly potent substances such as some fentanyl analogues or nitazenes that have already emerged … global level is now approaching the number of fentanyl analogues not under international control, while … the number of fentanyl analogues since 2021. Some nitazenes are more potent than fentanyl and have led … increased tolerance, and sometimes a fentanyls — fentanyl and its analogues. physical withdrawal state. …
Cato Institute · 15 October 2024 English
“US Citizens Were 80.2 Percent of Crossers with Fentanyl at Ports of Entry from 2019 to 2024,” is cited …
ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 15 October 2024 English
Introduction The growing potential of the India-Armenia bilateral is anchored in defence and security cooperation. As a central component of the latter, intelligence liaison can enable policymakers to accomplish the …
Two Years, Armenian Customs Agents Find Inbound Fentanyl,” Armenpress, January 23, 2024, https://armenpress …
Cato Institute · 8 October 2024 English
obtained on the black market. It is possible there were other substances in addition to or in place of fentanyl that rendered naloxone less effective as a reversal agent. For example, an increasing number of … finding another synthetic opioid, isotonitazene or "iso," which can be ten times more powerful than fentanyl, present in the victim's system. In late 2023, British law enforcement reported a big influx of …
other substances in addition to or in place of fentanyl that rendered naloxone less effective as a reversal … “iso,” which can be ten times more powerful than fentanyl, present in the victimʼs system. In late 2023 … more frequently as the toxic mix of unregulated fentanyl gets more worse. This emphasizes the need for … with naloxone nasal spray—usually from illicit fentanyl—but they often needed to administer multiple doses …
Cato Institute · 8 October 2024 English
The Cato Institute stands for the foundational American values of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution established American independence and our …
Daniel Raisbeck, “The US Military Can’t Solve the Fentanyl Crisis,” Foreign Policy, September 8, 2023. 3 …
CRFB: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget · 6 October 2024 English
This report, part of the U.S. Budget Watch 2024 series, provides an in-depth analysis of the fiscal impacts of the proposed policy platforms of the two main presidential candidates: Vice …
percent. 8 The 2024 Border Security and Combatting Fentanyl Supplemental Appropriations Act includes $21 billion …
Brookings Institution · 1 October 2024 English
her research on the evolution of illicit networks and supply chains in China that fuel the U.S. fentanyl and opioid crises. They also discuss the evolution and complexities U.S.-China counter-narcotics …
Institution The Killing Drugs podcast “The fentanyl pipeline and China’s role in the US opioid crisis” … and supply chains in China that fuel the U.S. fentanyl and opioid crises. They also discuss the evolution … Americans dying of drug overdoses each year, the fentanyl crisis in North America, already the most lethal … plays in the opioid epidemic and specifically the fentanyl epidemic in the U.S.? [1:46] FELBAB-BROWN: … FELBAB-BROWN: Well, China was the country from which most fentanyl started arriving in the United States, about a …
SWP: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik · 30 September 2024 German
SWP-Aktuell 2024/A 49, Oktober 2024, 8 Seiten
Welle Positionen enge Verbündete und Mitarbei- der Fentanyl-Importe aus Mexiko und der ter ihres Amtsvorgängers …
Cato Institute · 30 September 2024 English
Times article, “The American Drug Mules Smuggling Fentanyl Into the U.S.,” is cited on KTRS’ The McGraw Show …