Fentanyl – Clinical Effects and Related Harm By Dr Shaun Green

Dr. Shaun Green is a clinical toxicologist and emergency medicine physician who works at Austin Health in Melbourne. He is currently the medical director of the Victorian Poisons Information Centre and director of the Austin Hospital Clinical Toxicology Service. Shaun trained as a clinical toxicologist in the United Kingdom where he developed a keen professional interest in recreational drugs. His research interests include novel psychoactive substances and pharmaceutical opioid harm reduction.

Take-Home Points:

• Data limitations are reflected in the analytics of measuring fentanyl and the new analogues in postmortem samples.

• Over 40% of US overdose deaths in 2017 were due to a synthetic opioid other than methadone meaning that those deaths were due to fentanyl or a fentanyl analogue.

• The wholesale cost of medicinal fentanyl for an effective dose is very cheap.

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