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Article : Périodique
Michael Ashburn, MD, MPH, tells of a new black market in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood, which, compared with the city as a whole, has a significantly higher percentage of residents living in poverty and a significantly lower life expect[...]Rapport
British Columbia Centre on Substance Use | Vancouver, BC : BC Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU) | 2019In British Columbia, the fabric of society is fraying. The morgues are full of community members who have died of opioid overdoses as a result of fentanyl poisoning of the illicit drug supply. For the first time in recent history, the life expec[...]Article : Périodique
Heroin uncertainties: Exploring users' perceptions of fentanyl-adulterated and -substituted 'heroin'
Background: The US is experiencing an unprecedented opioid overdose epidemic fostered in recent years by regional contamination of the heroin supply with the fentanyl family of synthetic opioids. Since 2011 opioid-related overdose deaths in the [...]NouveautéArticle : Périodique
M. S. KRIEGER ; J. L. YEDINAK ; J. A. BUXTON ; M. LYSYSHYN ; E. BERNSTEIN ; J. D. RICH ; T. C. GREEN ; S. E. HADLAND ; B. D. L. MARSHALL |Background: Synthetic opioid overdose mortality among young adults has risen more than 300% in the USA since 2013, primarily due to the contamination of heroin and other drugs with illicitly manufactured fentanyl. Rapid test strips, which can be[...]Rapport
M. BALL ; R. BROADHURST ; H. TRIVEDI | Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology | Statistical Bulletin, ISSN 2206-7302 | 2019This bulletin provides a snapshot of the sale and distribution of fentanyl and its analogues across several popular illicit darknet markets. Data collected daily from six darknet markets between 2 January and 23 February 2019 reveal the amount, [...]Article : Périodique
Fentanyls as a class of drug have pharmacological properties that make them more likely to lead to overdose than other opioids. In addition to high potency and rapid onset of respiratory depression, these drugs also induce respiratory muscle sti[...]Article : Périodique
In April 2023, the Taliban banned poppy cultivation and the trade of all narcotics. This caused a 95% reduction in opium production. Usually, that would be good news. But there is a substantial worry: synthetic opioids might fill the void left b[...]Périodique
A. I. L. BERENS ; A. J. VOETS ; DEMEDTS P. | 1996Plusieurs cas d'overdose consécutives à l'absorption de fentanyl ou d'analogues confectionnés clandestinement en laboratoire, ont été relevés en Europe.Article : Périodique
Background: Illicitly manufactured fentanyl and its analogues are appearing in countries throughout the world, often disguised as heroin or counterfeit prescription pills, with resulting high overdose mortality. Possible explanations for this ph[...]Article : Périodique
For nearly a century heroin has dominated the illegal opioid trade. The global supply of heroin is estimated to generate tens of billions of dollars in revenues a year and its illegal use has long been the source of many societal harms. The arri[...]Article : Périodique
FRANÇAIS : Présentation du cas d'un homme de 36 ans intoxiqué par inhalation, après chauffage, du contenu d'un patch de fentanyl (analgésique narcotique synthétique) ayant entraîné une dépression respiratoire sévère. De fortes doses de naloxon[...]Rapport
Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs | Washington, DC : U.S. Department of State | 2022The Department of State's International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) - due to Congress March 1st annually - is prepared in accordance with §489 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (the "FAA," 22 U.S.C. §2291). The INCS[...]Rapport
Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs | Washington, DC : U.S. Department of State | 2023While the public health crisis of COVID-19 and its concomitant effects on drug trafficking, control, and use abated in 2022, the crisis of substance use continued, though it did not intensify to the same degree as in the past two years. Provisio[...]Article : Périodique
L. B. COTTLER ; B. A. GOLDBERGER ; S. J. NIXON ; C. W. STRILEY ; E. BARENHOLTZ ; N. D. FITZGERALD ; S. M. TAYLOR ; J. J. PALAMAR |Deaths from fentanyl and from psychostimulants are increasing (Kariisa et al., 2019; O’Donnell et al., 2020) and new psychoactive substances (NPS) continue to emerge (US Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA], 2020). Methods of drug administratio[...]Article : Périodique
T. SEYLER ; I. GIRAUDON ; A. NOOR ; J. MOUNTENEY ; P. GRIFFITHS |This paper addresses the question of whether Europe is facing an opioid epidemic and utilises data from the European monitoring system on opioid use, harms and availability, to help assess the situation. Data sources covering the last decade on [...]