Drug Surveillance Systems and the Challenge of Powerful New Opioids Compounds far more potent than fentanyl are emerging faster than ever. State and local overdose tracking systems should be built to detect them.

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Drug Surveillance Systems and the Challenge of Powerful New Opioids Compounds far more potent than fentanyl are emerging faster than ever. State and local overdose tracking systems should be built to detect them.

State and local overdose surveillance systems were built to classify deaths and track trends.

They were not built for rapid identification of newly engineered synthetic opioids.

As new compounds emerge, detection depends on toxicology panel configuration and laboratory capacity.

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N-Propionitrile Chlorphine. Never heard of it? Well it is doing a lot of killing.

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