Fact Sheets/ Alerts

• Fentanyl Street Names

• NIDA Fentanyl Information

• Cuyahoga County: Heroin & Fentanyl Related Deaths in Cuyahoga County

• CDC Health Advisory: Increases in Fentanyl Drug Confiscations and Fentanyl-related Overdose Fatalities

• San Francisco Health Advisory: Fentanyl-Containing 'Xanax' Pill

• DEA Fentanyl Press Release and Alert

• DEA Fact Sheet: Acetyl Fentanyl

• NIDA: DrugFacts: Fentanyl

• DEA Fact Sheet: Fentanyl

• DEA Warning to Police and Public: Fentanyl Exposure Kills

• CDC: Injury Prevention & Control: Fentanyl

• CDC Health Alert Network (2016): Influx of Fentanyl-laced Counterfeit Pills and Toxic Fentanyl-related Compounds Further Increases Risk of Fentanyl-related Overdose and Fatalities

• CDC Advisory 2015: Increases in Fentanyl Drug Confiscations and Fentanyl-related Overdose Fatalities

• CDC Alert 2013: Recommendations for Laboratory Testing for Acetyl Fentanyl and Patient Evaluation and Treatment for Overdose with Synthetic Opioid

  Hamilton County, Ohio:

• Fentanyl Report  (10/26/2015)
• Fentanyl Addendum (1/19/2016)

Journal Articles

• Fentanyls: Are We Missing the Signs? Highly Potent and on the Rise in Europe

• Fatal Intoxication with Acetyl Fentanyl

• The Fentanyl Patch Boil-up--A Novel Method of Opioid Abuse

• Combatting Synthetic Designer Opioids: A Conjugate Vaccine Ablates Lethal Doses of Fentanyl Class Drugs

• Trends in Opioid Analgesic Abuse and Mortality in the United States

• Australia: Risk of fentanyl overdose among clients of the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre

• Predictions Instead of Panics: The Framework and Utility of Systematic Forecasting of Novel Psychoactive Drug Trends

• Scientists Create Vaccines Against Dangerous Opioids

Other Resources

• DEA: Fentanyl - A Briefing Guide for First Responders 

• Fentanyl Crisis is So Deadly in Canada That Even Funeral Directors Need the Antidote (December 2016)

• For Small Town Cops, Opioid Scourge Hits Close to Home

• Why Superpotent Synthetic Opioids are 'Crazy Dangerous,' DEA Says (September 2016)

• Fentanyl Concerns Changing Way Police Departments Keep Officers Safe (June 2016)

• Boston Police Warn Fake Oxycodone Pills are Made of Fentanyl (June 2016)

• Fentanyl Now VA's Deadliest Killer (June 2016)

• Ohio Cops Eye Possible Fentanyl After 17 Overdoses in 1 Day (June 2016)

• Synthetic Drugs Pose Alarming US Overdose Risk DEA Chief Says (June 2016)

• All Things Considered: Deadly Fentanyl Trade Linked to Chinese Companies (April 2016)

• NYC Health: Advisory #8: Increase in Drug Overdoses Deaths and Increased Presence of Fentanyl in New York City (April 2016)

• Heroin Epidemic is Yielding to a Deadlier Cousin: Fentanyl (March 2016)

• Synthetic Drugs in the United States (February 2016)

• Schedules of Controlled Substances: Temporary Placement of Acetyl Fentanyl Into Schedule I (July 2015)

• Special Report: Opiates and Related Drugs Reported in NFLIS, 2009–2014 (July 2015)

• Emerging Opioid Table from NFLIS Special Report (July 2015)

• National Heroin Threat Assessment Summary (April 2015) [Fentanyl information on p. 5]

News Reports

• Quebec City Police Seize $1.5M Worth of Fentanyl (April 2016)
• Health Department Alert: Counterfeit Street Pills and Fentanyl-Related Overdoses (April 2016)
• RCMP Bust Fentanyl Pill Operation in West Kelowna (March 2016)
• Fentanyl-Contaminatied Street Norco (March 2016)
• Sheriff: Blend of Xanax, Fentanyl has Killed Nine People in Pinellas (March 2016)