Fentanyl: The New Opioid Predator

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid prescribed to treat severe pain.

50X more potent than HEROIN

100X more potent than MORPHINE

Illicitly Manufactured Fentanyl:

• often mixed with heroin or cocaine or pressed into counterfeit pills, at times without the user’s
• knowledge
• also known as Apache, China Girl, China White, Dance Fever, Friend, Goodfella, Jackpot, Murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash
• leading cause of the recent rise in synthetic opioid deaths

Synthetic Opioid Deaths

in the United States in the past five years increased by 10-fold