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Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
By Westhoff, Ben
- ISBN
- 9780802127433 9780802147950
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly
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Reviewed on August 1, 2019 | Social Sciences
Exacerbating and complicating the epidemic of opioid misuse, addiction, and overdose is the careening growth in Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS), an ever-expanding array of synthetic drugs designed to mimic the effects of traditional recreational and pharmaceutical chemicals—but typically with much higher potency, and trafficked in disguise, so that users simply do not know what they are taking. As soon as one NPS is identified and banned, another is d...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
