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Drug and Painkiller Nine fentanyl deaths in Canada in just one night
Fentanyl is a powerful analgesic that is given to cancer patients. The drug is also used as a drug. And partly with a fatal outcome. In Canada's Vancouver, nine people died of the intoxicant in just one night.
Unusual accumulation of drug-related deaths
In Canada, people are currently concerned about the unusual accumulation of drug-related fentanyl deaths. In Vancouver, in a single night, nine people died from an overdose of the dangerous intoxicant used in medicine as an anesthetic and analgesic. "Fentanyl is used in strong and severe pain, for example in emergency medicine, breakthrough pain or cancer patients," it says on the website of the drug index "Yellow List Pharmindex". The effect is therefore "about 100 times as strong as that of morphine."
In Canada, people are very worried about the unusual accumulation of narcotics by fentanyl. In Vancouver, in a single night, nine people died of the painkiller, which is also used as a drug. (Image: designer491 / fotolia.com) Increase in deadly overdoses
In this country, there were already deaths. In 2013, a man from Bremen apparently died because of fentanyl patches.
University of Michigan researchers recently reported in the journal "Pain" on a study that showed a steady increase in fatal overdoses in opioid analgesics.
One of these remedies is fentanyl. German experts have also denounced the abuse of fentanyl patches. Some people use the medicine to get intoxicated. In Canada, nine people have been killed in just one night due to overdose.
Nine drug dead in a single night
According to AFP, nine people in Vancouver have died from an overdose of the drug Fentanyl in one night alone. The agency relies on a message from Mayor Gregor Robertson.
"These are hopeless times for Vancouver and it's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel if we have not bottomed," said Robertson at a press conference with police and other officials.
Rapidly increased abuse of fentanyl
According to police chief Adam Palmer, a total of 160 people have been overdosed with fentanyl since the end of November in Vancouver. For the entire year 2015, there were 67 fatalities caused by the synthetic opioid.
According to reports, Canada and its neighbor USA have been fighting for a few months against the rapid increase in the abuse of fentanyl. The remedy is very dependent.
Pop star Prince died after opioid intake
Just two grams of pure fentanyl - about the size of four grains of salt - can be fatal to an adult.
Even the US singer Prince came in April after the capture of Fentanyl killed. (Ad)