Fact Sheets/ Alerts

European Drug Report 2016 Highlights: New Drugs: New Harms and Health Alerts, and Rises in Overdose Deaths: Spotlight on Heroin and Other Opioids

CCENDU Bulletin: Novel Synthetic Opioids in Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals and Other Illicit Street Drugs (June 2016)

Health Canada Clarifies Position on W-18 (June 2016)

Journal Articles

Association of Law Enforcement Seizures of Heroin, Fentanyl, and Carfentanil With Opioid Overdose Deaths in Ohio, 2014-2017 (November 2019)

A Case of Acute Intoxication Due to Combined Use of Fentanyl and 3,4-dichloro-N-[2-(dimethylamino)cyclohexyl]-N-methylbenzamine     (U-47700) (May 2016)

The First Reported Fatality Associated with Synthetic Opioid 3,4-dichloro-N-[2-(dimethylamino)cyclohexyl]-N-methylbenzamide (U-47700) and Implications for Forensic Analysis (May 2016)

Analysis of MT-45, a Novel Synthetic Opioid, In Human Whole Blood by LC-MS and its Identification in a Drug-Related Death (May 2016)

Understanding the Availability, Prevalence of Use, Desired Effects, Acute Toxicity and Dependence Potential of the Novel Opioid MT-45 (January 2015)

Other Resources

UNODC Laboratory: Current NPS Threats, a new publication, presents highlights from the UNODC Toxicology Portal (March 2019)

Illinois: Morton Crime Lab test results from decedents found methoxyacetyl #fentanyl-laced #cocaine (December 7, 2017)

China bans more synthetic opioids blamed for U.S. drug deaths (June 2017)

Designer Drug Update Summer 2016 Webinar: Novel Synthetic Cannabinoids and Designer Opioids Dominate the Market (August 2016)

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

W-18 Seized in Edmonton; Confirmed by Testing April 2016 (April 2016)

Broward Man Who Smuggled Synthetic Heroin also had New Lethal, but Legal, Street Drug (March 2016)

A Toxic Drug, More Powerful than Fentanyl, Hits Alberta (February 2016)