How fentanyl went from drug status to the hottest and deadliest drug around

Fentanyl is associated with the Drug traffic, addictions and a serious public health problem; however, it was not always so, as he was born in 1959 as a great medical option and potent analgesic for patients with acute or chronic pain.

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In recent weeks, people have been linked to using national highways to traffic this type of drug.

Lately, it has become common for National Guard and military officers to seize packages of fentanyl, which are usually destined for the United States.

While in Mexico the alerts for the clandestine growth of fentanyl production in the neighboring country a serious public health problem since its consumption would probably be higher than on the national territory.

Valentin Perez Islands, specialist in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Forensic Chemistry from the Faculty of Graduate Studies of Zaragoza of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), recalled that fentanyl originally appeared as a synthetic opioid for medical reasons.

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had a great result anesthetic in patients with severe pain, but with its use they detected that it generates unwanted effects due to the potential of its composition. Some of them were severe respiratory depression which puts people’s lives at risk if the correct dose is not administered.

According Medication Information Sheet, fentanyl 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more than heroin.

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The university specialist ensured for UNAM Official Journal that among the main factors why fentanyl has gone from a controlled drug to a popular drug in the market is that due to its high potentiation generates various stimulating psychotropic effects, producing in its users:

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-Extreme relaxation

– Feeling of satisfaction and well-being

– Escape from reality

– Loss of sense of time and space

-Hallucinations

Another factor that made it extremely popular and a public health issue was the heroin shortage Asian white. This situation was taken advantage of by the cartels to introduce the fentanyl as a new drug which is also much cheaper for consumers.

Add to that, the transfer of this drug is much easier because with a relatively small dose, the effect is great, thanks to its potency. Minimal consumption can satisfy your buyers’ addiction.

All the above aspects have made fentanyl in a short time one of the drugs preferred by consumers, “giving way to a company that today leaves multi-million dollar profitsbut at a high social cost.

The greater the demand, the greater the production. Unlike fentanyl used medically and under control, the one used in the criminal world has a An artisanal production that can be deadly.

Islas Pérez pointed out that in the clandestine laboratories there is no type of control in the preparation of the drug and the cartels can arbitrarily alter or modify the concentration substances to make fentanyl more potent.

Given this, consumers put their health at risk, because they do not know the composition of the dose. In addition to becoming potentially dependent on this drug, consuming altered doses could lead to fulminant respiratory paralysis.

According to data from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA, for its acronym in English) between February 2021 and 2022 there were 109 thousand dead Americans from a fentanyl overdose.

In the same period, the Border Patrol seized over 10,000 kilograms of fentanyl. At the time, President Joe Biden pointed out that it was a threat to national security, economy and foreign policy.

The specialist regretted in Mexico there is no registration how fentanyl use and addiction have increased, since they are only recorded as general opiate cases. “Technology is not available necessary to identify when a patient consumed this drug or died specifically from a fentanyl overdose.