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fentanyl

[fen-tuh-nil]

noun

Pharmacology.
  1. a synthetic, short-acting narcotic analgesic and sedative, C 22 H 28 N 2 O, used pharmacologically in anesthesia and neuroleptanalgesia, and also as an illicit drug: Drug dealers are lacing heroin with fentanyl.

    Medics quickly administered fentanyl to the injured soldiers.

    Drug dealers are lacing heroin with fentanyl.



fentanyl

/ ˈɛԳəˌԲɪ /

noun

  1. a narcotic drug used in medicine to relieve pain

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fentanyl1

First recorded in 1960–65; contraction and respelling of the chemical name N-(1-phenethyl-4-piperidyl)propionanilide
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Example Sentences

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“They need to be near the border fighting fentanyl, what are they doing here?” he said of the raid.

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County Inspector General’s office detailed two incidents where youths were taken to local medical facilities or revived with Narcan after fentanyl overdoses.

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A March 2023 search of the unit where the teens overdosed uncovered pills laced with fentanyl and “two large bindles of what appeared to be fentanyl” inside a dormitory, according to the inspector general’s report.

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Court records show Solis allegedly began conspiring to sell the drugs on May, 14, 2023, just five days after 18-year-old detainee Bryan Diaz died of a fentanyl overdose in the same building.

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“There’s no real intelligence, nothing is really interesting. There’s no sense of history or community or family. There’s no real athletics. It’s not especially pretty. There’s no national or local meaning and feeling of purpose. It’s kind of a vacant landscape of nothing, a suburban emptiness that closets you until you finally fill yourself with bagels, gnocchi or fentanyl.”

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