Warnmeldung: Hochpotente synthetische Opioide im Umlauf, z.T. enthalten in gefälschten Medikamenten Aus Deutschland liegen Berichte zu mindestens drei Todesfällen vor, bei denen der Verdacht auf eine (Misch-)Intoxikation mit synthetischen Opioide...

Global, regional, and national consumption of controlled opioids: a cross-sectional study of 214 countries and non-metropolitan territories.  Richards GC, Aronson JK, Mahtani KR, Heneghan C.  Br J Pain. 2022 Feb;16(1):34-40. doi: 10.11...

Clinical Management of Opioid Withdrawal, Torres-Lockhart, K., Lu, T. Y., Weimer, M. B., Stein, M. R., and Cunningham, C. O. (2022) Addiction. doi.org/10.1111/add.15818.  Abstract https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d...

USA. New Opioids Called Nitazenes May Be 20 Times Stronger Than Fentanyl A potent synthetic opioid class called nitazenes has been discovered after people overdosed on them. The nitazene class of medication was created over 60 years ago as a pot...

Etazene induces developmental toxicity in vivo Danio rerio and in silico studies of new synthetic opioid derivative.  Kurach Ł, Chłopaś-Konowałek A, Budzyńska B, Zawadzki M, Szpot P, Boguszewska-Czubara A.  Sci Rep. 2021 Dec 20;11(1):2...

USA/Kanada. Etodesnitazene — New Synthetic Opioid Identified During Forensic Death Investigations in the United States and Canada Purpose: The objective of this announcement is to notify public health and safety, law enforcement, first respo...