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The supply of Fentanyl on the streets is not coming from FDA licensed manufacturers anyway.

• onemoresoop 8y ago
  Yes but the doctor prescribes it first. When addicted, and the doctor doesn't want to prescribe it anymore, the street becomes the supplier. Most likely some politician or lobbyist out there is gaining on this whole chain of supply and demand, how else would a stronger drug get approved in the light of the opioid crisis we already can't handle.
  • leetcrew 8y ago
    > Yes but the doctor prescribes it first. fentanyl sold on the street is generally not diverted from prescriptions. fentanyl that you can actually take home tends to come in something like a patch where the drug is suspended at very low concentrations in a gel. illicit fentanyl sold at scale usually comes from illicit labs overseas. > how else would a stronger drug get approved in the light of the opioid crisis we already can't handle in this context, "stronger" simply means more potent by weight. you shouldn't assume that more potent opiates are more addictive; fentanyl is not the drug of choice for most opiate addicts.
• whoisjuan 8y ago
  That's not true. Fentanyl gets stolen in medical facilities all the time. There were some pharmacists in Canada some years ago that were stealing the fentanyl themselves and reporting they were being robbed. Of course that was a stupid scheme and they got caught.