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RSS FeedsUN Official: Opioid Epidemic In US Serves As Global Warning
(WorldNews Europe)

 
 

19 august 2017 00:23:25

 
UN Official: Opioid Epidemic In US Serves As Global Warning
(WorldNews Europe)
 


The efforts aimed at curbing the opioid addiction crisis that has been ravaging the United States have failed to curb the use of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, with a top UN drug official warning that the same thing could hit Europe and Australia if action isn`t taken, according to The Guardian. `Other countries with opiate problems should be concerned because fentanyl could quickly be pushed into their supply,` Jeremy Douglas, regional representative of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Fentanyl is around 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and was recently tied to the deaths of almost 60 people in the United Kingdom and a growing number of...


 
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