If you're worried about prescription opioids, you should be really scared of fentanyl

The U.S. opioid crisis has passed a dubious milestone: Overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids like illicitfentanyl have surpassed deaths involving prescription opioids.This switch occurred in 2016, according todata published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. And it seemed...

Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - May 1, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Karen Kaplan Source Type: news