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Nutriband Differentiates Prescription Fentanyl from Illicit Fentanyl in Response to United States Executive Order Designating Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Prescription pharmaceutical transdermal fentanyl is a valuable treatment for management of pain in opioid-tolerant patients, severe enough to require daily, around-the-clock, long-term opioid treatment for which alternate treatment options are inadequate. Illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals have been designated as weapons of mass destruction to enable the US government to combat the manufacture and distribution by cartels and foreign networks that have flooded the US with illegal f
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