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Weekly Dose: while the media panic about ice, we should worry about carfentanil

  • Written by David Caldicott, Emergency Medicine Consultant, Australian National University
imageMost people who take carfentanil think they're taking something else, usually heroin. from www.shutterstock.com.au

While the media seem embroiled in a moral panic about methamphetamine or “ice”, those of us who actually work with overdose patients are nervously watching out for a far more dangerous drug: carfentanil.

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