On the Horizon: The Synthetic Opioid U-49900

Synthetic opioid use continues to be a problem in the United States. New designer opioids continue to be released as "research chemicals" by vendors, leading to widespread use and potentially devastating consequences. U-49900 is a new synthetic opioid with limited clinical data available....

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Autores principales: Alzghari, Saeed K, Amin, Zubair M, Chau, Sophie, Fleming, Steven W, Cho, Kevin, Fung, Victor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Public Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5679768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29152436
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1679
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description Synthetic opioid use continues to be a problem in the United States. New designer opioids continue to be released as "research chemicals" by vendors, leading to widespread use and potentially devastating consequences. U-49900 is a new synthetic opioid with limited clinical data available. Herein, we provide an overview of U-49900, the anecdotal accounts of U-49900 use that clinicians need to be made aware of, and a call for the federal government to take immediate action in curtailing the use of U-49900.
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spelling pubmed-56797682017-11-17 On the Horizon: The Synthetic Opioid U-49900 Alzghari, Saeed K Amin, Zubair M Chau, Sophie Fleming, Steven W Cho, Kevin Fung, Victor Cureus Public Health Synthetic opioid use continues to be a problem in the United States. New designer opioids continue to be released as "research chemicals" by vendors, leading to widespread use and potentially devastating consequences. U-49900 is a new synthetic opioid with limited clinical data available. Herein, we provide an overview of U-49900, the anecdotal accounts of U-49900 use that clinicians need to be made aware of, and a call for the federal government to take immediate action in curtailing the use of U-49900. Cureus 2017-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5679768/ /pubmed/29152436 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1679 Text en Copyright © 2017, Alzghari et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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