Tag: Sarah Mars UCSF researcher

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 20:31 UTC

  Fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid painkiller poisoning US/China relations

  

  President Donald Trump has repeatedly hit out at China for failing to curb the export of illegal fentanyl to the United States. The powerful painkiller is the primary synthetic opioid available in the US, a class of drug that was responsible for almost 32,000 overdose deaths last year.