Pain Experts Urge New Nomenclature for Illicit Fentanyl Analogs

What’s in a name? In the case of the synthetic opioid fentanyl, the authors of an editorial in the Journal of Pain Research (2020;13: 2131-2133) think the answer is “a lot,” as they argue that a distinction should be made between the medically appropriate form of the drug and its myriad often-illicit analogs.

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