Case Study
Analysis Comparison of Street Fentanyl
CASE STUDY Analysis Comparison of Street Fentanyl MX908’s new Drug Hunter mode unlocks additional resolving power from the device’s existing hardware to dramatically upgrade selectivity, which with optimal detection capabilities for a subset of the devices target list, including a broad range of fentanyls, opioids, and amphetamines. The opioid abuse crisis is rapidly spreading throughout communities across the United States and the rest of the world. In 2015 alone, opioids were involved in the death of 33,091 US citizens – a number that has quadrupled since 1999 1 . In 2016, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) cited an additional increase of 28%, linking opioid abuse to more than 42,000 fatalities 2 . At 100 to 10,000 times the strength of morphine, fentanyl is