Countering the supply of counterfeit and designer drug pills laced with fentanyl or its
analogues has long been a challenge with the potency of the drug and the ease with which …

The subject of substance use disorders in the pediatric population remains a disturbing
conundrum for clinicians, researchers and society in general. Many of our youth are at risk of …

Background Rates of synthetic opioid-related deaths over time and across regions have
been compared within the US, but other indicator data could help inform prevention and …

Background Fentanyl is a powerful opioid. The abuse and overdoses related to Illicitly
Manufactured Fentanyl (IMF) have become more prevalent. The majority of clinical studies …

Objective Illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF) has emerged as a catalyst of the recent drug
epidemic in the United States. To devise more targeted and effective prevention and …

Drug criminalization has disproportionately impacted communities of color and has
insufficiently addressed substance use disorder and its associated risk of death through …

Deaths by homemade suicide machines naturally capture public attention given the
sensationalism of the subject matter and the complexity of the mechanisms involved. In this …

The ongoing opioid crisis has been marked by significant increases in fentanyl involvement
in overdoses. Research addressing these risk factors often use traditional data sources like …