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Author: Drug Enforcement Administration

Title: Fentanyl Remains the Most Significant Synthetic Opioid Threat and Poses the Greatest Threat to the Opioid User Market in the United States

Summary: From the Executive Summary: Fentanyl is the most prevalent and the most significant synthetic opioid a threat to the United States and will very likely remain the most prevalent synthetic opioid threat in the near term. The fentanyl threat remains most severe in the white powder heroin user market in the Midwest and Northeast United States, and fentanyl availability continues to be primarily by itself or with heroin. Fentanyl mixtures with non-opioid substances are a cause for public health concern due to the high potential for large numbers of fatal overdoses in short periods of time; however, there is no evidence that transnational criminal organizations (TCO) are trafficking strategic quantities of fentanyl already mixed with non-opioid drugs. Fentanyl's popularity is unlikely to be challenged in the near term, but traffickers will likely continue to produce new fentanyl-related substances and other novel opioids.

Details: S.L.: Drug Enforcement Intelligence Brief, 2018. 11p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 23, 2019 at: https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=818578

Year: 2018

Country: United States

URL: https://ndews.umd.edu/sites/ndews.umd.edu/files/fentanyl-remains-most-significant-synthetic-opioid-threat-2018.pdf

Shelf Number: 156027

Keywords:
Drug Trafficking
Fentanyl
Heroin
Illicit Markets
Opioid Crisis
Opioid Epidemic
Prescription Drug
Public Health
Substance Abuse
Substance Use
Synthetic Opioid