A review: fentanyl and non-pharmaceutical fentanyls

J Suzuki, S El-Haddad - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Fentanyl and non-pharmaceutical fentanyls (NPFs) have been responsible for
numerous outbreaks of overdoses all over the United States since the 1970s. However,
there has been a growing concern in recent years that NPFs are contributing to an alarming
rise in the number of opioid-related overdoses. Methods The authors conducted a narrative
review of the published and grey literature on fentanyl and NPFs in PubMed, Google
Scholar, and Google using the following search terms:“fentanyl”,“non-pharmaceutical …