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Emerging Threats in the Opioid Crisis: The Rise of Nitazenes

  • RJ 

The opioid epidemic continues to evolve, presenting new challenges in public health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported a staggering number of deaths related to fentanyl overdoses in a recent 12-month period. As the battle against fentanyl continues, a new class of synthetic opioids, known as nitazenes, is emerging as a potential threat, possibly eclipsing the current fentanyl crisis in severity. Nitazenes: A New Class of Synthetic Opioids Originally developed in the late 1950s by CIBA (now… Read More »Emerging Threats in the Opioid Crisis: The Rise of Nitazenes