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Tackling the Epidemic: Prevent, Protect, Prevail
Combating The Fentanyl & Opioid Epidemic To Save As Many Lives As Possible
Utilizing proprietary fentanyl test strips to prevent overdoses by accurately detecting fentanyl without cross-reactivity with other cutting agents.
Offering Naloxone Hydrochloride-based injectables for overdose protection, alongside FDA-cleared technologies to combat withdrawal symptoms, aiding in the successful journey to recovery.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid, considered one of the most lethal and widely used substances.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, fentanyl is similar to morphine but 50 to 100 times more potent and about ten times more potent than heroin.
Fentanyl was initially created only for use in very extreme and rare cases, such as for cancer patients who could not experience pain relief from other opioid drugs.
The drug fell into the hands of illicit market traffickers who figured out how to make illicit fentanyl in illegal drug labs and it is widely mixed into other drugs.
On average, one person dies of a fentanyl overdose in the United States every seven minutes. The drug kills more people than car accidents, gun violence and suicide.
More than 760,000 people have died since 1999 from a drug overdose. Nearly 75% of drug overdose deaths in 2020 involved an opioid.
The leading cause of unnatural deaths among individuals aged 19 to 39 in British Columbia, Canada.
67% of yearly overdose fatalities in the United States were associated with synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl. Some of these deaths were linked to the presence of fentanyl in combination with other illegal substances like cocaine, methamphetamine, and heroin. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
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