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Fentanyl Crisis

February 6 , 2025 13 hrs 0 min 15 0
  • Two individuals have been charged in Canada after they were arrested for alleged possession of 8 kg of fentanyl, potentially amounting to millions of doses.
  • US prosecution accused two Surat-based firms of shipping fentanyl precursors, mislabelling them as Vitamin C.
  • Fentanyl is A highly addictive synthetic opioid.
  • It is also considered approximately 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
  • In 2019, China classified fentanyl as a controlled narcotic and later added some of the chemicals used to make it to the list.

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