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Assume fentanyl is in every illicit drug. That was the takeaway from a recent presentation by the Utah Drug Monitoring Initiative. The powerful synthetic opioid is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, and its use is on the rise in Utah.
Fentanyl use in Utah is on the rise once again, with the state poison control center reporting a fivefold increase in nonprescription fentanyl cases during the last year.